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

Mathematical Sans-serif Italic Small W is U+1D638 in the Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols block. Latin Small Letter W is U+0077 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 W?

The HTML entity for Mathematical Sans-serif Italic Small W (U+1D638) is 𝘸.

What is the HTML entity for Latin Small Letter W?

The HTML entity for Latin Small Letter W (U+0077) is w.

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

No. Mathematical Sans-serif Italic Small W is U+1D638 (decimal 120376) and Latin Small Letter W is U+0077 (decimal 119). They are separate codepoints.

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

Mathematical Sans-serif Italic Small W (U+1D638) encodes as F0 9D 98 B8 in UTF-8. Latin Small Letter W (U+0077) encodes as 77 in UTF-8.

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

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.

𝘸

Mathematical Sans-serif Italic Small W

U+1D638

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Latin Small Letter W

U+0077

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Property Comparison

Property	Mathematical Sans-serif Italic Small W	Latin Small Letter W
Codepoint	`U+1D638`	`U+0077`
Decimal	`120376`	`119`
HTML Entity	`𝘸`	`w`
HTML Decimal	`𝘸`	`w`
HTML Hex	`𝘸`	`w`
UTF-8	`F0 9D 98 B8`	`77`
UTF-16	`D8 35 DE 38`	`00 77`
UTF-32	`0001D638`	`00000077`
CSS Escape	`\1D638`	`\77`
JS Escape	`\uD835\uDE38`	`\u0077`
Python Escape	`\U0001D638`	`\u0077`
URL Encoded	`%F0%9D%98%B8`	`w`
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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