What is the difference between Mathematical Bold Italic Capital Lamda and Latin Capital Letter Turned V?

Mathematical Bold Italic Capital Lamda is U+1D726 in the Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols block. Latin Capital Letter Turned V is U+0245 in the Latin Extended-B block. They are distinct Unicode codepoints and may appear visually similar depending on the font.

What is the HTML entity for Mathematical Bold Italic Capital Lamda?

The HTML entity for Mathematical Bold Italic Capital Lamda (U+1D726) is 𝜦.

What is the HTML entity for Latin Capital Letter Turned V?

The HTML entity for Latin Capital Letter Turned V (U+0245) is Ʌ.

Are Mathematical Bold Italic Capital Lamda and Latin Capital Letter Turned V the same Unicode character?

No. Mathematical Bold Italic Capital Lamda is U+1D726 (decimal 120614) and Latin Capital Letter Turned V is U+0245 (decimal 581). They are separate codepoints.

What are the UTF-8 encodings of Mathematical Bold Italic Capital Lamda and Latin Capital Letter Turned V?

Mathematical Bold Italic Capital Lamda (U+1D726) encodes as F0 9D 9C A6 in UTF-8. Latin Capital Letter Turned V (U+0245) encodes as C9 85 in UTF-8.

Mathematical Bold Italic Capital Lamda vs Latin Capital Letter Turned 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.

𝜦

Mathematical Bold Italic Capital Lamda

U+1D726

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Latin Capital Letter Turned V

U+0245

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Property Comparison

Property	Mathematical Bold Italic Capital Lamda	Latin Capital Letter Turned V
Codepoint	`U+1D726`	`U+0245`
Decimal	`120614`	`581`
HTML Entity	`𝜦`	`Ʌ`
HTML Decimal	`𝜦`	`Ʌ`
HTML Hex	`𝜦`	`Ʌ`
UTF-8	`F0 9D 9C A6`	`C9 85`
UTF-16	`D8 35 DF 26`	`02 45`
UTF-32	`0001D726`	`00000245`
CSS Escape	`\1D726`	`\245`
JS Escape	`\uD835\uDF26`	`\u0245`
Python Escape	`\U0001D726`	`\u0245`
URL Encoded	`%F0%9D%9C%A6`	`%C9%85`
Category	`Uppercase Letter (Lu)`	`Uppercase Letter (Lu)`
Block	`Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols`	`Latin Extended-B`
Script	`Common`	`Latin`
Bidi Class	`L`	`L`
Unicode Version	`3.1`	`5.0`

Rows highlighted in amber differ between the two characters.

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