What is the difference between Latin Small Letter Alpha With Retroflex Hook and Latin Small Letter Q With Hook Tail?

Latin Small Letter Alpha With Retroflex Hook is U+1D90 in the Phonetic Extensions Supplement block. Latin Small Letter Q With Hook Tail is U+024B in the Latin Extended-B block. They are distinct Unicode codepoints and may appear visually similar depending on the font.

What is the HTML entity for Latin Small Letter Alpha With Retroflex Hook?

The HTML entity for Latin Small Letter Alpha With Retroflex Hook (U+1D90) is ᶐ.

What is the HTML entity for Latin Small Letter Q With Hook Tail?

The HTML entity for Latin Small Letter Q With Hook Tail (U+024B) is ɋ.

Are Latin Small Letter Alpha With Retroflex Hook and Latin Small Letter Q With Hook Tail the same Unicode character?

No. Latin Small Letter Alpha With Retroflex Hook is U+1D90 (decimal 7568) and Latin Small Letter Q With Hook Tail is U+024B (decimal 587). They are separate codepoints.

What are the UTF-8 encodings of Latin Small Letter Alpha With Retroflex Hook and Latin Small Letter Q With Hook Tail?

Latin Small Letter Alpha With Retroflex Hook (U+1D90) encodes as E1 B6 90 in UTF-8. Latin Small Letter Q With Hook Tail (U+024B) encodes as C9 8B in UTF-8.

Latin Small Letter Alpha With Retroflex Hook vs Latin Small Letter Q With Hook Tail

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.

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Latin Small Letter Alpha With Retroflex Hook

U+1D90

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Latin Small Letter Q With Hook Tail

U+024B

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Property Comparison

Property	Latin Small Letter Alpha With Retroflex Hook	Latin Small Letter Q With Hook Tail
Codepoint	`U+1D90`	`U+024B`
Decimal	`7568`	`587`
HTML Entity	`ᶐ`	`ɋ`
HTML Decimal	`ᶐ`	`ɋ`
HTML Hex	`ᶐ`	`ɋ`
UTF-8	`E1 B6 90`	`C9 8B`
UTF-16	`1D 90`	`02 4B`
UTF-32	`00001D90`	`0000024B`
CSS Escape	`\1D90`	`\24B`
JS Escape	`\u1D90`	`\u024B`
Python Escape	`\u1D90`	`\u024B`
URL Encoded	`%E1%B6%90`	`%C9%8B`
Category	`Lowercase Letter (Ll)`	`Lowercase Letter (Ll)`
Block	`Phonetic Extensions Supplement`	`Latin Extended-B`
Script	`Latin`	`Latin`
Bidi Class	`L`	`L`
Unicode Version	`4.1`	`5.0`

Rows highlighted in amber differ between the two characters.

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