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

Mathematical Sans-serif Bold Capital M is U+1D5E0 in the Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols block. Latin Capital Letter M is U+004D 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 M?

The HTML entity for Mathematical Sans-serif Bold Capital M (U+1D5E0) is 𝗠.

What is the HTML entity for Latin Capital Letter M?

The HTML entity for Latin Capital Letter M (U+004D) is M.

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

No. Mathematical Sans-serif Bold Capital M is U+1D5E0 (decimal 120288) and Latin Capital Letter M is U+004D (decimal 77). They are separate codepoints.

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

Mathematical Sans-serif Bold Capital M (U+1D5E0) encodes as F0 9D 97 A0 in UTF-8. Latin Capital Letter M (U+004D) encodes as 4D in UTF-8.

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

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.

𝗠

Mathematical Sans-serif Bold Capital M

U+1D5E0

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Latin Capital Letter M

U+004D

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Property Comparison

Property	Mathematical Sans-serif Bold Capital M	Latin Capital Letter M
Codepoint	`U+1D5E0`	`U+004D`
Decimal	`120288`	`77`
HTML Entity	`𝗠`	`M`
HTML Decimal	`𝗠`	`M`
HTML Hex	`𝗠`	`M`
UTF-8	`F0 9D 97 A0`	`4D`
UTF-16	`D8 35 DD E0`	`00 4D`
UTF-32	`0001D5E0`	`0000004D`
CSS Escape	`\1D5E0`	`\4D`
JS Escape	`\uD835\uDDE0`	`\u004D`
Python Escape	`\U0001D5E0`	`\u004D`
URL Encoded	`%F0%9D%97%A0`	`M`
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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