What is the difference between Mathematical Sans-serif Capital Y and Latin Capital Letter Y?

Mathematical Sans-serif Capital Y is U+1D5B8 in the Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols block. Latin Capital Letter Y is U+0059 in the Basic Latin block. They are distinct Unicode codepoints and may appear visually similar depending on the font.

What is the HTML entity for Mathematical Sans-serif Capital Y?

The HTML entity for Mathematical Sans-serif Capital Y (U+1D5B8) is 𝖸.

What is the HTML entity for Latin Capital Letter Y?

The HTML entity for Latin Capital Letter Y (U+0059) is Y.

Are Mathematical Sans-serif Capital Y and Latin Capital Letter Y the same Unicode character?

No. Mathematical Sans-serif Capital Y is U+1D5B8 (decimal 120248) and Latin Capital Letter Y is U+0059 (decimal 89). They are separate codepoints.

What are the UTF-8 encodings of Mathematical Sans-serif Capital Y and Latin Capital Letter Y?

Mathematical Sans-serif Capital Y (U+1D5B8) encodes as F0 9D 96 B8 in UTF-8. Latin Capital Letter Y (U+0059) encodes as 59 in UTF-8.

Mathematical Sans-serif Capital Y vs Latin Capital Letter Y

Compare two Unicode characters side by side — encodings, HTML entities, escape sequences, and Unicode properties. Useful for distinguishing visually similar characters like hyphens and dashes, quotation marks, or homoglyphs.

𝖸

Mathematical Sans-serif Capital Y

U+1D5B8

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Latin Capital Letter Y

U+0059

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Property Comparison

Property	Mathematical Sans-serif Capital Y	Latin Capital Letter Y
Codepoint	`U+1D5B8`	`U+0059`
Decimal	`120248`	`89`
HTML Entity	`𝖸`	`Y`
HTML Decimal	`𝖸`	`Y`
HTML Hex	`𝖸`	`Y`
UTF-8	`F0 9D 96 B8`	`59`
UTF-16	`D8 35 DD B8`	`00 59`
UTF-32	`0001D5B8`	`00000059`
CSS Escape	`\1D5B8`	`\59`
JS Escape	`\uD835\uDDB8`	`\u0059`
Python Escape	`\U0001D5B8`	`\u0059`
URL Encoded	`%F0%9D%96%B8`	`Y`
Category	`Uppercase Letter (Lu)`	`Uppercase Letter (Lu)`
Block	`Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols`	`Basic Latin`
Script	`Common`	`Latin`
Bidi Class	`L`	`L`
Unicode Version	`3.1`	`1.1`

Rows highlighted in amber differ between the two characters.

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