What is the difference between Mathematical Bold Italic Small Lamda and Greek Small Letter Lamda?

Mathematical Bold Italic Small Lamda is U+1D740 in the Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols block. Greek Small Letter Lamda is U+03BB 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 Bold Italic Small Lamda?

The HTML entity for Mathematical Bold Italic Small Lamda (U+1D740) is 𝝀.

What is the HTML entity for Greek Small Letter Lamda?

The HTML entity for Greek Small Letter Lamda (U+03BB) is λ.

Are Mathematical Bold Italic Small Lamda and Greek Small Letter Lamda the same Unicode character?

No. Mathematical Bold Italic Small Lamda is U+1D740 (decimal 120640) and Greek Small Letter Lamda is U+03BB (decimal 955). They are separate codepoints.

What are the UTF-8 encodings of Mathematical Bold Italic Small Lamda and Greek Small Letter Lamda?

Mathematical Bold Italic Small Lamda (U+1D740) encodes as F0 9D 9D 80 in UTF-8. Greek Small Letter Lamda (U+03BB) encodes as CE BB in UTF-8.

Mathematical Bold Italic Small Lamda vs Greek Small Letter Lamda

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 Small Lamda

U+1D740

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Greek Small Letter Lamda

U+03BB

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Property Comparison

Property	Mathematical Bold Italic Small Lamda	Greek Small Letter Lamda
Codepoint	`U+1D740`	`U+03BB`
Decimal	`120640`	`955`
HTML Entity	`𝝀`	`λ`
HTML Decimal	`𝝀`	`λ`
HTML Hex	`𝝀`	`λ`
UTF-8	`F0 9D 9D 80`	`CE BB`
UTF-16	`D8 35 DF 40`	`03 BB`
UTF-32	`0001D740`	`000003BB`
CSS Escape	`\1D740`	`\3BB`
JS Escape	`\uD835\uDF40`	`\u03BB`
Python Escape	`\U0001D740`	`\u03BB`
URL Encoded	`%F0%9D%9D%80`	`%CE%BB`
Category	`Lowercase Letter (Ll)`	`Lowercase Letter (Ll)`
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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