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

Mathematical Bold Small Digamma is U+1D7CB in the Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols block. Greek Small Letter Digamma is U+03DD 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 Small Digamma?

The HTML entity for Mathematical Bold Small Digamma (U+1D7CB) is 𝟋.

What is the HTML entity for Greek Small Letter Digamma?

The HTML entity for Greek Small Letter Digamma (U+03DD) is ϝ.

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

No. Mathematical Bold Small Digamma is U+1D7CB (decimal 120779) and Greek Small Letter Digamma is U+03DD (decimal 989). They are separate codepoints.

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

Mathematical Bold Small Digamma (U+1D7CB) encodes as F0 9D 9F 8B in UTF-8. Greek Small Letter Digamma (U+03DD) encodes as CF 9D in UTF-8.

Mathematical Bold Small Digamma vs Greek Small Letter Digamma

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.

𝟋

Mathematical Bold Small Digamma

U+1D7CB

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Greek Small Letter Digamma

U+03DD

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Property Comparison

Property	Mathematical Bold Small Digamma	Greek Small Letter Digamma
Codepoint	`U+1D7CB`	`U+03DD`
Decimal	`120779`	`989`
HTML Entity	`𝟋`	`ϝ`
HTML Decimal	`𝟋`	`ϝ`
HTML Hex	`𝟋`	`ϝ`
UTF-8	`F0 9D 9F 8B`	`CF 9D`
UTF-16	`D8 35 DF CB`	`03 DD`
UTF-32	`0001D7CB`	`000003DD`
CSS Escape	`\1D7CB`	`\3DD`
JS Escape	`\uD835\uDFCB`	`\u03DD`
Python Escape	`\U0001D7CB`	`\u03DD`
URL Encoded	`%F0%9D%9F%8B`	`%CF%9D`
Category	`Lowercase Letter (Ll)`	`Lowercase Letter (Ll)`
Block	`Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols`	`Greek and Coptic`
Script	`Common`	`Greek`
Bidi Class	`L`	`L`
Unicode Version	`5.0`	`3.0`

Rows highlighted in amber differ between the two characters.

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