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

Mathematical Sans-serif Bold Capital E is U+1D5D8 in the Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols block. Latin Capital Letter E is U+0045 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 Bold Capital E?

The HTML entity for Mathematical Sans-serif Bold Capital E (U+1D5D8) is 𝗘.

What is the HTML entity for Latin Capital Letter E?

The HTML entity for Latin Capital Letter E (U+0045) is E.

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

No. Mathematical Sans-serif Bold Capital E is U+1D5D8 (decimal 120280) and Latin Capital Letter E is U+0045 (decimal 69). They are separate codepoints.

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

Mathematical Sans-serif Bold Capital E (U+1D5D8) encodes as F0 9D 97 98 in UTF-8. Latin Capital Letter E (U+0045) encodes as 45 in UTF-8.

Mathematical Sans-serif Bold Capital E vs Latin Capital Letter E

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.

𝗘

Mathematical Sans-serif Bold Capital E

U+1D5D8

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Latin Capital Letter E

U+0045

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Property Comparison

Property	Mathematical Sans-serif Bold Capital E	Latin Capital Letter E
Codepoint	`U+1D5D8`	`U+0045`
Decimal	`120280`	`69`
HTML Entity	`𝗘`	`E`
HTML Decimal	`𝗘`	`E`
HTML Hex	`𝗘`	`E`
UTF-8	`F0 9D 97 98`	`45`
UTF-16	`D8 35 DD D8`	`00 45`
UTF-32	`0001D5D8`	`00000045`
CSS Escape	`\1D5D8`	`\45`
JS Escape	`\uD835\uDDD8`	`\u0045`
Python Escape	`\U0001D5D8`	`\u0045`
URL Encoded	`%F0%9D%97%98`	`E`
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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