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

Mathematical Sans-serif Bold Capital Q is U+1D5E4 in the Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols block. Latin Capital Letter Q is U+0051 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 Q?

The HTML entity for Mathematical Sans-serif Bold Capital Q (U+1D5E4) is 𝗤.

What is the HTML entity for Latin Capital Letter Q?

The HTML entity for Latin Capital Letter Q (U+0051) is Q.

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

No. Mathematical Sans-serif Bold Capital Q is U+1D5E4 (decimal 120292) and Latin Capital Letter Q is U+0051 (decimal 81). They are separate codepoints.

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

Mathematical Sans-serif Bold Capital Q (U+1D5E4) encodes as F0 9D 97 A4 in UTF-8. Latin Capital Letter Q (U+0051) encodes as 51 in UTF-8.

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

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.

𝗤

Mathematical Sans-serif Bold Capital Q

U+1D5E4

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Latin Capital Letter Q

U+0051

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Property Comparison

Property	Mathematical Sans-serif Bold Capital Q	Latin Capital Letter Q
Codepoint	`U+1D5E4`	`U+0051`
Decimal	`120292`	`81`
HTML Entity	`𝗤`	`Q`
HTML Decimal	`𝗤`	`Q`
HTML Hex	`𝗤`	`Q`
UTF-8	`F0 9D 97 A4`	`51`
UTF-16	`D8 35 DD E4`	`00 51`
UTF-32	`0001D5E4`	`00000051`
CSS Escape	`\1D5E4`	`\51`
JS Escape	`\uD835\uDDE4`	`\u0051`
Python Escape	`\U0001D5E4`	`\u0051`
URL Encoded	`%F0%9D%97%A4`	`Q`
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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