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

Mathematical Bold Italic Small Psi is U+1D74D in the Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols block. Greek Small Letter Psi is U+03C8 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 Psi?

The HTML entity for Mathematical Bold Italic Small Psi (U+1D74D) is 𝝍.

What is the HTML entity for Greek Small Letter Psi?

The HTML entity for Greek Small Letter Psi (U+03C8) is ψ.

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

No. Mathematical Bold Italic Small Psi is U+1D74D (decimal 120653) and Greek Small Letter Psi is U+03C8 (decimal 968). They are separate codepoints.

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

Mathematical Bold Italic Small Psi (U+1D74D) encodes as F0 9D 9D 8D in UTF-8. Greek Small Letter Psi (U+03C8) encodes as CF 88 in UTF-8.

Mathematical Bold Italic Small Psi vs Greek Small 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 Bold Italic Small Psi

U+1D74D

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Greek Small Letter Psi

U+03C8

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Property Comparison

Property	Mathematical Bold Italic Small Psi	Greek Small Letter Psi
Codepoint	`U+1D74D`	`U+03C8`
Decimal	`120653`	`968`
HTML Entity	`𝝍`	`ψ`
HTML Decimal	`𝝍`	`ψ`
HTML Hex	`𝝍`	`ψ`
UTF-8	`F0 9D 9D 8D`	`CF 88`
UTF-16	`D8 35 DF 4D`	`03 C8`
UTF-32	`0001D74D`	`000003C8`
CSS Escape	`\1D74D`	`\3C8`
JS Escape	`\uD835\uDF4D`	`\u03C8`
Python Escape	`\U0001D74D`	`\u03C8`
URL Encoded	`%F0%9D%9D%8D`	`%CF%88`
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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