What is the difference between Mathematical Sans-serif Bold Italic Capital Chi and Latin Capital Letter X?

Mathematical Sans-serif Bold Italic Capital Chi is U+1D7A6 in the Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols block. Latin Capital Letter X is U+0058 in the Basic Latin 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 Italic Capital Chi?

The HTML entity for Mathematical Sans-serif Bold Italic Capital Chi (U+1D7A6) is 𝞦.

What is the HTML entity for Latin Capital Letter X?

The HTML entity for Latin Capital Letter X (U+0058) is X.

Are Mathematical Sans-serif Bold Italic Capital Chi and Latin Capital Letter X the same Unicode character?

No. Mathematical Sans-serif Bold Italic Capital Chi is U+1D7A6 (decimal 120742) and Latin Capital Letter X is U+0058 (decimal 88). They are separate codepoints.

What are the UTF-8 encodings of Mathematical Sans-serif Bold Italic Capital Chi and Latin Capital Letter X?

Mathematical Sans-serif Bold Italic Capital Chi (U+1D7A6) encodes as F0 9D 9E A6 in UTF-8. Latin Capital Letter X (U+0058) encodes as 58 in UTF-8.

Mathematical Sans-serif Bold Italic Capital Chi vs Latin Capital Letter X

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.

𝞦

Mathematical Sans-serif Bold Italic Capital Chi

U+1D7A6

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Latin Capital Letter X

U+0058

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Property Comparison

Property	Mathematical Sans-serif Bold Italic Capital Chi	Latin Capital Letter X
Codepoint	`U+1D7A6`	`U+0058`
Decimal	`120742`	`88`
HTML Entity	`𝞦`	`X`
HTML Decimal	`𝞦`	`X`
HTML Hex	`𝞦`	`X`
UTF-8	`F0 9D 9E A6`	`58`
UTF-16	`D8 35 DF A6`	`00 58`
UTF-32	`0001D7A6`	`00000058`
CSS Escape	`\1D7A6`	`\58`
JS Escape	`\uD835\uDFA6`	`\u0058`
Python Escape	`\U0001D7A6`	`\u0058`
URL Encoded	`%F0%9D%9E%A6`	`X`
Category	`Uppercase Letter (Lu)`	`Uppercase Letter (Lu)`
Block	`Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols`	`Basic Latin`
Script	`Common`	`Latin`
Bidi Class	`L`	`L`
Unicode Version	`3.1`	`1.1`

Rows highlighted in amber differ between the two characters.

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