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

Mathematical Sans-serif Italic Small V is U+1D637 in the Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols block. Latin Small Letter V is U+0076 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 V?

The HTML entity for Mathematical Sans-serif Italic Small V (U+1D637) is 𝘷.

What is the HTML entity for Latin Small Letter V?

The HTML entity for Latin Small Letter V (U+0076) is v.

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

No. Mathematical Sans-serif Italic Small V is U+1D637 (decimal 120375) and Latin Small Letter V is U+0076 (decimal 118). They are separate codepoints.

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

Mathematical Sans-serif Italic Small V (U+1D637) encodes as F0 9D 98 B7 in UTF-8. Latin Small Letter V (U+0076) encodes as 76 in UTF-8.

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

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.

𝘷

Mathematical Sans-serif Italic Small V

U+1D637

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Latin Small Letter V

U+0076

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Property Comparison

Property	Mathematical Sans-serif Italic Small V	Latin Small Letter V
Codepoint	`U+1D637`	`U+0076`
Decimal	`120375`	`118`
HTML Entity	`𝘷`	`v`
HTML Decimal	`𝘷`	`v`
HTML Hex	`𝘷`	`v`
UTF-8	`F0 9D 98 B7`	`76`
UTF-16	`D8 35 DE 37`	`00 76`
UTF-32	`0001D637`	`00000076`
CSS Escape	`\1D637`	`\76`
JS Escape	`\uD835\uDE37`	`\u0076`
Python Escape	`\U0001D637`	`\u0076`
URL Encoded	`%F0%9D%98%B7`	`v`
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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