What is the difference between Scruple and Cyrillic Capital Letter E?

Scruple is U+2108 in the Letterlike Symbols block. Cyrillic Capital Letter E is U+042D in the Cyrillic block. They are distinct Unicode codepoints and may appear visually similar depending on the font.

What is the HTML entity for Scruple?

The HTML entity for Scruple (U+2108) is ℈.

What is the HTML entity for Cyrillic Capital Letter E?

The HTML entity for Cyrillic Capital Letter E (U+042D) is Э.

Are Scruple and Cyrillic Capital Letter E the same Unicode character?

No. Scruple is U+2108 (decimal 8456) and Cyrillic Capital Letter E is U+042D (decimal 1069). They are separate codepoints.

What are the UTF-8 encodings of Scruple and Cyrillic Capital Letter E?

Scruple (U+2108) encodes as E2 84 88 in UTF-8. Cyrillic Capital Letter E (U+042D) encodes as D0 AD in UTF-8.

Scruple vs Cyrillic Capital Letter E

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.

℈

Scruple

U+2108

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Cyrillic Capital Letter E

U+042D

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Property Comparison

Property	Scruple	Cyrillic Capital Letter E
Codepoint	`U+2108`	`U+042D`
Decimal	`8456`	`1069`
HTML Entity	`℈`	`Э`
HTML Decimal	`℈`	`Э`
HTML Hex	`℈`	`Э`
UTF-8	`E2 84 88`	`D0 AD`
UTF-16	`21 08`	`04 2D`
UTF-32	`00002108`	`0000042D`
CSS Escape	`\2108`	`\42D`
JS Escape	`\u2108`	`\u042D`
Python Escape	`\u2108`	`\u042D`
URL Encoded	`%E2%84%88`	`%D0%AD`
Category	`Other Symbol (So)`	`Uppercase Letter (Lu)`
Block	`Letterlike Symbols`	`Cyrillic`
Script	`Common`	`Cyrillic`
Bidi Class	`ON`	`L`
Unicode Version	`1.1`	`1.1`

Rows highlighted in amber differ between the two characters.

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