What is the difference between Mathematical Italic Capital Psi and Greek Capital Letter Psi?

Mathematical Italic Capital Psi is U+1D6F9 in the Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols block. Greek Capital Letter Psi is U+03A8 in the Greek and Coptic block. They are distinct Unicode codepoints and may appear visually similar depending on the font.

What is the HTML entity for Mathematical Italic Capital Psi?

The HTML entity for Mathematical Italic Capital Psi (U+1D6F9) is 𝛹.

What is the HTML entity for Greek Capital Letter Psi?

The HTML entity for Greek Capital Letter Psi (U+03A8) is Ψ.

Are Mathematical Italic Capital Psi and Greek Capital Letter Psi the same Unicode character?

No. Mathematical Italic Capital Psi is U+1D6F9 (decimal 120569) and Greek Capital Letter Psi is U+03A8 (decimal 936). They are separate codepoints.

What are the UTF-8 encodings of Mathematical Italic Capital Psi and Greek Capital Letter Psi?

Mathematical Italic Capital Psi (U+1D6F9) encodes as F0 9D 9B B9 in UTF-8. Greek Capital Letter Psi (U+03A8) encodes as CE A8 in UTF-8.

Mathematical Italic Capital Psi vs Greek Capital Letter Psi

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.

𝛹

Mathematical Italic Capital Psi

U+1D6F9

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Greek Capital Letter Psi

U+03A8

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Property Comparison

Property	Mathematical Italic Capital Psi	Greek Capital Letter Psi
Codepoint	`U+1D6F9`	`U+03A8`
Decimal	`120569`	`936`
HTML Entity	`𝛹`	`Ψ`
HTML Decimal	`𝛹`	`Ψ`
HTML Hex	`𝛹`	`Ψ`
UTF-8	`F0 9D 9B B9`	`CE A8`
UTF-16	`D8 35 DE F9`	`03 A8`
UTF-32	`0001D6F9`	`000003A8`
CSS Escape	`\1D6F9`	`\3A8`
JS Escape	`\uD835\uDEF9`	`\u03A8`
Python Escape	`\U0001D6F9`	`\u03A8`
URL Encoded	`%F0%9D%9B%B9`	`%CE%A8`
Category	`Uppercase Letter (Lu)`	`Uppercase Letter (Lu)`
Block	`Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols`	`Greek and Coptic`
Script	`Common`	`Greek`
Bidi Class	`L`	`L`
Unicode Version	`3.1`	`1.1`

Rows highlighted in amber differ between the two characters.

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