What is the difference between Mathematical Sans-serif Bold Small B and Latin Small Letter B?

Mathematical Sans-serif Bold Small B is U+1D5EF in the Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols block. Latin Small Letter B is U+0062 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 Small B?

The HTML entity for Mathematical Sans-serif Bold Small B (U+1D5EF) is 𝗯.

What is the HTML entity for Latin Small Letter B?

The HTML entity for Latin Small Letter B (U+0062) is b.

Are Mathematical Sans-serif Bold Small B and Latin Small Letter B the same Unicode character?

No. Mathematical Sans-serif Bold Small B is U+1D5EF (decimal 120303) and Latin Small Letter B is U+0062 (decimal 98). They are separate codepoints.

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

Mathematical Sans-serif Bold Small B (U+1D5EF) encodes as F0 9D 97 AF in UTF-8. Latin Small Letter B (U+0062) encodes as 62 in UTF-8.

Mathematical Sans-serif Bold Small B vs Latin Small Letter B

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.

𝗯

Mathematical Sans-serif Bold Small B

U+1D5EF

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Latin Small Letter B

U+0062

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Property Comparison

Property	Mathematical Sans-serif Bold Small B	Latin Small Letter B
Codepoint	`U+1D5EF`	`U+0062`
Decimal	`120303`	`98`
HTML Entity	`𝗯`	`b`
HTML Decimal	`𝗯`	`b`
HTML Hex	`𝗯`	`b`
UTF-8	`F0 9D 97 AF`	`62`
UTF-16	`D8 35 DD EF`	`00 62`
UTF-32	`0001D5EF`	`00000062`
CSS Escape	`\1D5EF`	`\62`
JS Escape	`\uD835\uDDEF`	`\u0062`
Python Escape	`\U0001D5EF`	`\u0062`
URL Encoded	`%F0%9D%97%AF`	`b`
Category	`Lowercase Letter (Ll)`	`Lowercase Letter (Ll)`
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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