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

Mathematical Sans-serif Bold Italic Small Psi is U+1D7C1 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 Sans-serif Bold Italic Small Psi?

The HTML entity for Mathematical Sans-serif Bold Italic Small Psi (U+1D7C1) 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 Sans-serif Bold Italic Small Psi and Greek Small Letter Psi the same Unicode character?

No. Mathematical Sans-serif Bold Italic Small Psi is U+1D7C1 (decimal 120769) and Greek Small Letter Psi is U+03C8 (decimal 968). They are separate codepoints.

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

Mathematical Sans-serif Bold Italic Small Psi (U+1D7C1) encodes as F0 9D 9F 81 in UTF-8. Greek Small Letter Psi (U+03C8) encodes as CF 88 in UTF-8.

Mathematical Sans-serif 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 Sans-serif Bold Italic Small Psi

U+1D7C1

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Greek Small Letter Psi

U+03C8

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Property Comparison

Property	Mathematical Sans-serif Bold Italic Small Psi	Greek Small Letter Psi
Codepoint	`U+1D7C1`	`U+03C8`
Decimal	`120769`	`968`
HTML Entity	`𝟁`	`ψ`
HTML Decimal	`𝟁`	`ψ`
HTML Hex	`𝟁`	`ψ`
UTF-8	`F0 9D 9F 81`	`CF 88`
UTF-16	`D8 35 DF C1`	`03 C8`
UTF-32	`0001D7C1`	`000003C8`
CSS Escape	`\1D7C1`	`\3C8`
JS Escape	`\uD835\uDFC1`	`\u03C8`
Python Escape	`\U0001D7C1`	`\u03C8`
URL Encoded	`%F0%9D%9F%81`	`%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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