What is the difference between Latin Small Letter V With Palatal Hook and Latin Small Letter Y?

Latin Small Letter V With Palatal Hook is U+1D8C in the Phonetic Extensions Supplement block. Latin Small Letter Y is U+0079 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 Latin Small Letter V With Palatal Hook?

The HTML entity for Latin Small Letter V With Palatal Hook (U+1D8C) is ᶌ.

What is the HTML entity for Latin Small Letter Y?

The HTML entity for Latin Small Letter Y (U+0079) is y.

Are Latin Small Letter V With Palatal Hook and Latin Small Letter Y the same Unicode character?

No. Latin Small Letter V With Palatal Hook is U+1D8C (decimal 7564) and Latin Small Letter Y is U+0079 (decimal 121). They are separate codepoints.

What are the UTF-8 encodings of Latin Small Letter V With Palatal Hook and Latin Small Letter Y?

Latin Small Letter V With Palatal Hook (U+1D8C) encodes as E1 B6 8C in UTF-8. Latin Small Letter Y (U+0079) encodes as 79 in UTF-8.

Latin Small Letter V With Palatal Hook vs Latin Small Letter Y

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.

ᶌ

Latin Small Letter V With Palatal Hook

U+1D8C

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Latin Small Letter Y

U+0079

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Property Comparison

Property	Latin Small Letter V With Palatal Hook	Latin Small Letter Y
Codepoint	`U+1D8C`	`U+0079`
Decimal	`7564`	`121`
HTML Entity	`ᶌ`	`y`
HTML Decimal	`ᶌ`	`y`
HTML Hex	`ᶌ`	`y`
UTF-8	`E1 B6 8C`	`79`
UTF-16	`1D 8C`	`00 79`
UTF-32	`00001D8C`	`00000079`
CSS Escape	`\1D8C`	`\79`
JS Escape	`\u1D8C`	`\u0079`
Python Escape	`\u1D8C`	`\u0079`
URL Encoded	`%E1%B6%8C`	`y`
Category	`Lowercase Letter (Ll)`	`Lowercase Letter (Ll)`
Block	`Phonetic Extensions Supplement`	`Basic Latin`
Script	`Latin`	`Latin`
Bidi Class	`L`	`L`
Unicode Version	`4.1`	`1.1`

Rows highlighted in amber differ between the two characters.

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