What is the difference between Inverted Ohm Sign and Latin Capital Letter Upsilon?

Inverted Ohm Sign is U+2127 in the Letterlike Symbols block. Latin Capital Letter Upsilon is U+01B1 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 Inverted Ohm Sign?

The HTML entity for Inverted Ohm Sign (U+2127) is ℧.

What is the HTML entity for Latin Capital Letter Upsilon?

The HTML entity for Latin Capital Letter Upsilon (U+01B1) is Ʊ.

Are Inverted Ohm Sign and Latin Capital Letter Upsilon the same Unicode character?

No. Inverted Ohm Sign is U+2127 (decimal 8487) and Latin Capital Letter Upsilon is U+01B1 (decimal 433). They are separate codepoints.

What are the UTF-8 encodings of Inverted Ohm Sign and Latin Capital Letter Upsilon?

Inverted Ohm Sign (U+2127) encodes as E2 84 A7 in UTF-8. Latin Capital Letter Upsilon (U+01B1) encodes as C6 B1 in UTF-8.

Inverted Ohm Sign vs Latin Capital Letter Upsilon

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.

℧

Inverted Ohm Sign

U+2127

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Latin Capital Letter Upsilon

U+01B1

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Property Comparison

Property	Inverted Ohm Sign	Latin Capital Letter Upsilon
Codepoint	`U+2127`	`U+01B1`
Decimal	`8487`	`433`
HTML Entity	`℧`	`Ʊ`
HTML Decimal	`℧`	`Ʊ`
HTML Hex	`℧`	`Ʊ`
UTF-8	`E2 84 A7`	`C6 B1`
UTF-16	`21 27`	`01 B1`
UTF-32	`00002127`	`000001B1`
CSS Escape	`\2127`	`\1B1`
JS Escape	`\u2127`	`\u01B1`
Python Escape	`\u2127`	`\u01B1`
URL Encoded	`%E2%84%A7`	`%C6%B1`
Category	`Other Symbol (So)`	`Uppercase Letter (Lu)`
Block	`Letterlike Symbols`	`Latin Extended-B`
Script	`Common`	`Latin`
Bidi Class	`ON`	`L`
Unicode Version	`1.1`	`1.1`

Rows highlighted in amber differ between the two characters.

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