What is the difference between Mathematical Sans-serif Bold Digit Eight and Digit Eight?

Mathematical Sans-serif Bold Digit Eight is U+1D7F4 in the Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols block. Digit Eight is U+0038 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 Digit Eight?

The HTML entity for Mathematical Sans-serif Bold Digit Eight (U+1D7F4) is 𝟴.

What is the HTML entity for Digit Eight?

The HTML entity for Digit Eight (U+0038) is 8.

Are Mathematical Sans-serif Bold Digit Eight and Digit Eight the same Unicode character?

No. Mathematical Sans-serif Bold Digit Eight is U+1D7F4 (decimal 120820) and Digit Eight is U+0038 (decimal 56). They are separate codepoints.

What are the UTF-8 encodings of Mathematical Sans-serif Bold Digit Eight and Digit Eight?

Mathematical Sans-serif Bold Digit Eight (U+1D7F4) encodes as F0 9D 9F B4 in UTF-8. Digit Eight (U+0038) encodes as 38 in UTF-8.

Mathematical Sans-serif Bold Digit Eight vs Digit Eight

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.

𝟴

Mathematical Sans-serif Bold Digit Eight

U+1D7F4

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Digit Eight

U+0038

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Property Comparison

Property	Mathematical Sans-serif Bold Digit Eight	Digit Eight
Codepoint	`U+1D7F4`	`U+0038`
Decimal	`120820`	`56`
HTML Entity	`𝟴`	`8`
HTML Decimal	`𝟴`	`8`
HTML Hex	`𝟴`	`8`
UTF-8	`F0 9D 9F B4`	`38`
UTF-16	`D8 35 DF F4`	`00 38`
UTF-32	`0001D7F4`	`00000038`
CSS Escape	`\1D7F4`	`\38`
JS Escape	`\uD835\uDFF4`	`\u0038`
Python Escape	`\U0001D7F4`	`\u0038`
URL Encoded	`%F0%9D%9F%B4`	`8`
Category	`Decimal Number (Nd)`	`Decimal Number (Nd)`
Block	`Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols`	`Basic Latin`
Script	`Common`	`Common`
Bidi Class	`EN`	`EN`
Unicode Version	`3.1`	`1.1`

Rows highlighted in amber differ between the two characters.

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