What is the difference between Mathematical Bold Capital Nu and Latin Capital Letter N?

Mathematical Bold Capital Nu is U+1D6B4 in the Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols block. Latin Capital Letter N is U+004E 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 Bold Capital Nu?

The HTML entity for Mathematical Bold Capital Nu (U+1D6B4) is 𝚴.

What is the HTML entity for Latin Capital Letter N?

The HTML entity for Latin Capital Letter N (U+004E) is N.

Are Mathematical Bold Capital Nu and Latin Capital Letter N the same Unicode character?

No. Mathematical Bold Capital Nu is U+1D6B4 (decimal 120500) and Latin Capital Letter N is U+004E (decimal 78). They are separate codepoints.

What are the UTF-8 encodings of Mathematical Bold Capital Nu and Latin Capital Letter N?

Mathematical Bold Capital Nu (U+1D6B4) encodes as F0 9D 9A B4 in UTF-8. Latin Capital Letter N (U+004E) encodes as 4E in UTF-8.

Mathematical Bold Capital Nu vs Latin Capital Letter N

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.

𝚴

Mathematical Bold Capital Nu

U+1D6B4

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Latin Capital Letter N

U+004E

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Property Comparison

Property	Mathematical Bold Capital Nu	Latin Capital Letter N
Codepoint	`U+1D6B4`	`U+004E`
Decimal	`120500`	`78`
HTML Entity	`𝚴`	`N`
HTML Decimal	`𝚴`	`N`
HTML Hex	`𝚴`	`N`
UTF-8	`F0 9D 9A B4`	`4E`
UTF-16	`D8 35 DE B4`	`00 4E`
UTF-32	`0001D6B4`	`0000004E`
CSS Escape	`\1D6B4`	`\4E`
JS Escape	`\uD835\uDEB4`	`\u004E`
Python Escape	`\U0001D6B4`	`\u004E`
URL Encoded	`%F0%9D%9A%B4`	`N`
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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