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

Mathematical Sans-serif Bold Capital R is U+1D5E5 in the Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols block. Latin Capital Letter R is U+0052 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 R?

The HTML entity for Mathematical Sans-serif Bold Capital R (U+1D5E5) is 𝗥.

What is the HTML entity for Latin Capital Letter R?

The HTML entity for Latin Capital Letter R (U+0052) is R.

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

No. Mathematical Sans-serif Bold Capital R is U+1D5E5 (decimal 120293) and Latin Capital Letter R is U+0052 (decimal 82). They are separate codepoints.

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

Mathematical Sans-serif Bold Capital R (U+1D5E5) encodes as F0 9D 97 A5 in UTF-8. Latin Capital Letter R (U+0052) encodes as 52 in UTF-8.

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

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.

𝗥

Mathematical Sans-serif Bold Capital R

U+1D5E5

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Latin Capital Letter R

U+0052

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Property Comparison

Property	Mathematical Sans-serif Bold Capital R	Latin Capital Letter R
Codepoint	`U+1D5E5`	`U+0052`
Decimal	`120293`	`82`
HTML Entity	`𝗥`	`R`
HTML Decimal	`𝗥`	`R`
HTML Hex	`𝗥`	`R`
UTF-8	`F0 9D 97 A5`	`52`
UTF-16	`D8 35 DD E5`	`00 52`
UTF-32	`0001D5E5`	`00000052`
CSS Escape	`\1D5E5`	`\52`
JS Escape	`\uD835\uDDE5`	`\u0052`
Python Escape	`\U0001D5E5`	`\u0052`
URL Encoded	`%F0%9D%97%A5`	`R`
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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