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

Mathematical Sans-serif Italic Small Q is U+1D632 in the Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols block. Latin Small Letter Q is U+0071 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 Q?

The HTML entity for Mathematical Sans-serif Italic Small Q (U+1D632) is 𝘲.

What is the HTML entity for Latin Small Letter Q?

The HTML entity for Latin Small Letter Q (U+0071) is q.

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

No. Mathematical Sans-serif Italic Small Q is U+1D632 (decimal 120370) and Latin Small Letter Q is U+0071 (decimal 113). They are separate codepoints.

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

Mathematical Sans-serif Italic Small Q (U+1D632) encodes as F0 9D 98 B2 in UTF-8. Latin Small Letter Q (U+0071) encodes as 71 in UTF-8.

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

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.

𝘲

Mathematical Sans-serif Italic Small Q

U+1D632

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Latin Small Letter Q

U+0071

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Property Comparison

Property	Mathematical Sans-serif Italic Small Q	Latin Small Letter Q
Codepoint	`U+1D632`	`U+0071`
Decimal	`120370`	`113`
HTML Entity	`𝘲`	`q`
HTML Decimal	`𝘲`	`q`
HTML Hex	`𝘲`	`q`
UTF-8	`F0 9D 98 B2`	`71`
UTF-16	`D8 35 DE 32`	`00 71`
UTF-32	`0001D632`	`00000071`
CSS Escape	`\1D632`	`\71`
JS Escape	`\uD835\uDE32`	`\u0071`
Python Escape	`\U0001D632`	`\u0071`
URL Encoded	`%F0%9D%98%B2`	`q`
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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