What is the difference between Greek Perispomeni and Tilde?

Greek Perispomeni is U+1FC0 in the Greek Extended block. Tilde is U+007E 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 Greek Perispomeni?

The HTML entity for Greek Perispomeni (U+1FC0) is ῀.

What is the HTML entity for Tilde?

The HTML entity for Tilde (U+007E) is ~.

Are Greek Perispomeni and Tilde the same Unicode character?

No. Greek Perispomeni is U+1FC0 (decimal 8128) and Tilde is U+007E (decimal 126). They are separate codepoints.

What are the UTF-8 encodings of Greek Perispomeni and Tilde?

Greek Perispomeni (U+1FC0) encodes as E1 BF 80 in UTF-8. Tilde (U+007E) encodes as 7E in UTF-8.

Greek Perispomeni vs Tilde

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.

῀

Greek Perispomeni

U+1FC0

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Tilde

U+007E

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Property Comparison

Property	Greek Perispomeni	Tilde
Codepoint	`U+1FC0`	`U+007E`
Decimal	`8128`	`126`
HTML Entity	`῀`	`~`
HTML Decimal	`῀`	`~`
HTML Hex	`῀`	`~`
UTF-8	`E1 BF 80`	`7E`
UTF-16	`1F C0`	`00 7E`
UTF-32	`00001FC0`	`0000007E`
CSS Escape	`\1FC0`	`\7E`
JS Escape	`\u1FC0`	`\u007E`
Python Escape	`\u1FC0`	`\u007E`
URL Encoded	`%E1%BF%80`	`~`
Category	`Modifier Symbol (Sk)`	`Math Symbol (Sm)`
Block	`Greek Extended`	`Basic Latin`
Script	`Greek`	`Common`
Bidi Class	`ON`	`ON`
Unicode Version	`1.1`	`1.1`

Rows highlighted in amber differ between the two characters.

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