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

Mathematical Sans-serif Bold Capital W is U+1D5EA in the Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols block. Latin Capital Letter W is U+0057 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 W?

The HTML entity for Mathematical Sans-serif Bold Capital W (U+1D5EA) is 𝗪.

What is the HTML entity for Latin Capital Letter W?

The HTML entity for Latin Capital Letter W (U+0057) is W.

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

No. Mathematical Sans-serif Bold Capital W is U+1D5EA (decimal 120298) and Latin Capital Letter W is U+0057 (decimal 87). They are separate codepoints.

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

Mathematical Sans-serif Bold Capital W (U+1D5EA) encodes as F0 9D 97 AA in UTF-8. Latin Capital Letter W (U+0057) encodes as 57 in UTF-8.

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

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.

𝗪

Mathematical Sans-serif Bold Capital W

U+1D5EA

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Latin Capital Letter W

U+0057

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Property Comparison

Property	Mathematical Sans-serif Bold Capital W	Latin Capital Letter W
Codepoint	`U+1D5EA`	`U+0057`
Decimal	`120298`	`87`
HTML Entity	`𝗪`	`W`
HTML Decimal	`𝗪`	`W`
HTML Hex	`𝗪`	`W`
UTF-8	`F0 9D 97 AA`	`57`
UTF-16	`D8 35 DD EA`	`00 57`
UTF-32	`0001D5EA`	`00000057`
CSS Escape	`\1D5EA`	`\57`
JS Escape	`\uD835\uDDEA`	`\u0057`
Python Escape	`\U0001D5EA`	`\u0057`
URL Encoded	`%F0%9D%97%AA`	`W`
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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