What is the difference between Mathematical Sans-serif Italic Capital Z and Latin Capital Letter Z?

Mathematical Sans-serif Italic Capital Z is U+1D621 in the Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols block. Latin Capital Letter Z is U+005A 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 Italic Capital Z?

The HTML entity for Mathematical Sans-serif Italic Capital Z (U+1D621) is 𝘡.

What is the HTML entity for Latin Capital Letter Z?

The HTML entity for Latin Capital Letter Z (U+005A) is Z.

Are Mathematical Sans-serif Italic Capital Z and Latin Capital Letter Z the same Unicode character?

No. Mathematical Sans-serif Italic Capital Z is U+1D621 (decimal 120353) and Latin Capital Letter Z is U+005A (decimal 90). They are separate codepoints.

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

Mathematical Sans-serif Italic Capital Z (U+1D621) encodes as F0 9D 98 A1 in UTF-8. Latin Capital Letter Z (U+005A) encodes as 5A in UTF-8.

Mathematical Sans-serif Italic Capital Z vs Latin Capital Letter Z

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.

𝘡

Mathematical Sans-serif Italic Capital Z

U+1D621

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Latin Capital Letter Z

U+005A

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Property Comparison

Property	Mathematical Sans-serif Italic Capital Z	Latin Capital Letter Z
Codepoint	`U+1D621`	`U+005A`
Decimal	`120353`	`90`
HTML Entity	`𝘡`	`Z`
HTML Decimal	`𝘡`	`Z`
HTML Hex	`𝘡`	`Z`
UTF-8	`F0 9D 98 A1`	`5A`
UTF-16	`D8 35 DE 21`	`00 5A`
UTF-32	`0001D621`	`0000005A`
CSS Escape	`\1D621`	`\5A`
JS Escape	`\uD835\uDE21`	`\u005A`
Python Escape	`\U0001D621`	`\u005A`
URL Encoded	`%F0%9D%98%A1`	`Z`
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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