What is the difference between Mathematical Sans-serif Bold Pi Symbol and Greek Small Letter Pi?

Mathematical Sans-serif Bold Pi Symbol is U+1D78F in the Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols block. Greek Small Letter Pi is U+03C0 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 Sans-serif Bold Pi Symbol?

The HTML entity for Mathematical Sans-serif Bold Pi Symbol (U+1D78F) is 𝞏.

What is the HTML entity for Greek Small Letter Pi?

The HTML entity for Greek Small Letter Pi (U+03C0) is π.

Are Mathematical Sans-serif Bold Pi Symbol and Greek Small Letter Pi the same Unicode character?

No. Mathematical Sans-serif Bold Pi Symbol is U+1D78F (decimal 120719) and Greek Small Letter Pi is U+03C0 (decimal 960). They are separate codepoints.

What are the UTF-8 encodings of Mathematical Sans-serif Bold Pi Symbol and Greek Small Letter Pi?

Mathematical Sans-serif Bold Pi Symbol (U+1D78F) encodes as F0 9D 9E 8F in UTF-8. Greek Small Letter Pi (U+03C0) encodes as CF 80 in UTF-8.

Mathematical Sans-serif Bold Pi Symbol vs Greek Small Letter Pi

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.

𝞏

Mathematical Sans-serif Bold Pi Symbol

U+1D78F

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Greek Small Letter Pi

U+03C0

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Property Comparison

Property	Mathematical Sans-serif Bold Pi Symbol	Greek Small Letter Pi
Codepoint	`U+1D78F`	`U+03C0`
Decimal	`120719`	`960`
HTML Entity	`𝞏`	`π`
HTML Decimal	`𝞏`	`π`
HTML Hex	`𝞏`	`π`
UTF-8	`F0 9D 9E 8F`	`CF 80`
UTF-16	`D8 35 DF 8F`	`03 C0`
UTF-32	`0001D78F`	`000003C0`
CSS Escape	`\1D78F`	`\3C0`
JS Escape	`\uD835\uDF8F`	`\u03C0`
Python Escape	`\U0001D78F`	`\u03C0`
URL Encoded	`%F0%9D%9E%8F`	`%CF%80`
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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