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

Mathematical Sans-serif Small O is U+1D5C8 in the Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols block. Latin Small Letter O is U+006F 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 O?

The HTML entity for Mathematical Sans-serif Small O (U+1D5C8) is 𝗈.

What is the HTML entity for Latin Small Letter O?

The HTML entity for Latin Small Letter O (U+006F) is o.

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

No. Mathematical Sans-serif Small O is U+1D5C8 (decimal 120264) and Latin Small Letter O is U+006F (decimal 111). They are separate codepoints.

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

Mathematical Sans-serif Small O (U+1D5C8) encodes as F0 9D 97 88 in UTF-8. Latin Small Letter O (U+006F) encodes as 6F in UTF-8.

Mathematical Sans-serif Small O vs Latin Small Letter O

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.

𝗈

Mathematical Sans-serif Small O

U+1D5C8

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Latin Small Letter O

U+006F

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Property Comparison

Property	Mathematical Sans-serif Small O	Latin Small Letter O
Codepoint	`U+1D5C8`	`U+006F`
Decimal	`120264`	`111`
HTML Entity	`𝗈`	`o`
HTML Decimal	`𝗈`	`o`
HTML Hex	`𝗈`	`o`
UTF-8	`F0 9D 97 88`	`6F`
UTF-16	`D8 35 DD C8`	`00 6F`
UTF-32	`0001D5C8`	`0000006F`
CSS Escape	`\1D5C8`	`\6F`
JS Escape	`\uD835\uDDC8`	`\u006F`
Python Escape	`\U0001D5C8`	`\u006F`
URL Encoded	`%F0%9D%97%88`	`o`
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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