What is the difference between Mathematical Sans-serif Italic Small E and Latin Small Letter E?

Mathematical Sans-serif Italic Small E is U+1D626 in the Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols block. Latin Small Letter E is U+0065 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 Small E?

The HTML entity for Mathematical Sans-serif Italic Small E (U+1D626) is 𝘦.

What is the HTML entity for Latin Small Letter E?

The HTML entity for Latin Small Letter E (U+0065) is e.

Are Mathematical Sans-serif Italic Small E and Latin Small Letter E the same Unicode character?

No. Mathematical Sans-serif Italic Small E is U+1D626 (decimal 120358) and Latin Small Letter E is U+0065 (decimal 101). They are separate codepoints.

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

Mathematical Sans-serif Italic Small E (U+1D626) encodes as F0 9D 98 A6 in UTF-8. Latin Small Letter E (U+0065) encodes as 65 in UTF-8.

Mathematical Sans-serif Italic Small E vs Latin Small Letter E

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.

𝘦

Mathematical Sans-serif Italic Small E

U+1D626

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Latin Small Letter E

U+0065

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Property Comparison

Property	Mathematical Sans-serif Italic Small E	Latin Small Letter E
Codepoint	`U+1D626`	`U+0065`
Decimal	`120358`	`101`
HTML Entity	`𝘦`	`e`
HTML Decimal	`𝘦`	`e`
HTML Hex	`𝘦`	`e`
UTF-8	`F0 9D 98 A6`	`65`
UTF-16	`D8 35 DE 26`	`00 65`
UTF-32	`0001D626`	`00000065`
CSS Escape	`\1D626`	`\65`
JS Escape	`\uD835\uDE26`	`\u0065`
Python Escape	`\U0001D626`	`\u0065`
URL Encoded	`%F0%9D%98%A6`	`e`
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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