What is the difference between Office Building and Office Building Symbol?

Office Building is U+1F3E2 in the Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs block. Office Building Symbol is U+1CEBB in the Symbols for Legacy Computing Supplement block. They are distinct Unicode codepoints and may appear visually similar depending on the font.

What is the HTML entity for Office Building?

The HTML entity for Office Building (U+1F3E2) is 🏢.

What is the HTML entity for Office Building Symbol?

The HTML entity for Office Building Symbol (U+1CEBB) is 𜺻.

Are Office Building and Office Building Symbol the same Unicode character?

No. Office Building is U+1F3E2 (decimal 127970) and Office Building Symbol is U+1CEBB (decimal 118459). They are separate codepoints.

What are the UTF-8 encodings of Office Building and Office Building Symbol?

Office Building (U+1F3E2) encodes as F0 9F 8F A2 in UTF-8. Office Building Symbol (U+1CEBB) encodes as F0 9C BA BB in UTF-8.

Office Building vs Office Building Symbol

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.

🏢

Office Building

U+1F3E2

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Office Building Symbol

U+1CEBB

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Property Comparison

Property	Office Building	Office Building Symbol
Codepoint	`U+1F3E2`	`U+1CEBB`
Decimal	`127970`	`118459`
HTML Entity	`🏢`	`𜺻`
HTML Decimal	`🏢`	`𜺻`
HTML Hex	`🏢`	`𜺻`
UTF-8	`F0 9F 8F A2`	`F0 9C BA BB`
UTF-16	`D8 3C DF E2`	`D8 33 DE BB`
UTF-32	`0001F3E2`	`0001CEBB`
CSS Escape	`\1F3E2`	`\1CEBB`
JS Escape	`\uD83C\uDFE2`	`\uD833\uDEBB`
Python Escape	`\U0001F3E2`	`\U0001CEBB`
URL Encoded	`%F0%9F%8F%A2`	`%F0%9C%BA%BB`
Category	`Other Symbol (So)`	`Other Symbol (So)`
Block	`Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs`	`Symbols for Legacy Computing Supplement`
Script	`Common`	`Common`
Bidi Class	`ON`	`ON`
Unicode Version	`6.0`	`17.0`

Rows highlighted in amber differ between the two characters.

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