What is the difference between Mathematical Sans-serif Small A and Latin Small Letter A?

Mathematical Sans-serif Small A is U+1D5BA in the Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols block. Latin Small Letter A is U+0061 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 Small A?

The HTML entity for Mathematical Sans-serif Small A (U+1D5BA) is 𝖺.

What is the HTML entity for Latin Small Letter A?

The HTML entity for Latin Small Letter A (U+0061) is a.

Are Mathematical Sans-serif Small A and Latin Small Letter A the same Unicode character?

No. Mathematical Sans-serif Small A is U+1D5BA (decimal 120250) and Latin Small Letter A is U+0061 (decimal 97). They are separate codepoints.

What are the UTF-8 encodings of Mathematical Sans-serif Small A and Latin Small Letter A?

Mathematical Sans-serif Small A (U+1D5BA) encodes as F0 9D 96 BA in UTF-8. Latin Small Letter A (U+0061) encodes as 61 in UTF-8.

Mathematical Sans-serif Small A vs Latin Small Letter A

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.

𝖺

Mathematical Sans-serif Small A

U+1D5BA

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Latin Small Letter A

U+0061

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Property Comparison

Property	Mathematical Sans-serif Small A	Latin Small Letter A
Codepoint	`U+1D5BA`	`U+0061`
Decimal	`120250`	`97`
HTML Entity	`𝖺`	`a`
HTML Decimal	`𝖺`	`a`
HTML Hex	`𝖺`	`a`
UTF-8	`F0 9D 96 BA`	`61`
UTF-16	`D8 35 DD BA`	`00 61`
UTF-32	`0001D5BA`	`00000061`
CSS Escape	`\1D5BA`	`\61`
JS Escape	`\uD835\uDDBA`	`\u0061`
Python Escape	`\U0001D5BA`	`\u0061`
URL Encoded	`%F0%9D%96%BA`	`a`
Category	`Lowercase Letter (Ll)`	`Lowercase Letter (Ll)`
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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