What is the difference between Estimated Symbol and Latin Small Letter E?

Estimated Symbol is U+212E in the Letterlike Symbols block. Latin Small Letter E is U+0065 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 Estimated Symbol?

The HTML entity for Estimated Symbol (U+212E) is ℮.

What is the HTML entity for Latin Small Letter E?

The HTML entity for Latin Small Letter E (U+0065) is e.

Are Estimated Symbol and Latin Small Letter E the same Unicode character?

No. Estimated Symbol is U+212E (decimal 8494) and Latin Small Letter E is U+0065 (decimal 101). They are separate codepoints.

What are the UTF-8 encodings of Estimated Symbol and Latin Small Letter E?

Estimated Symbol (U+212E) encodes as E2 84 AE in UTF-8. Latin Small Letter E (U+0065) encodes as 65 in UTF-8.

Estimated Symbol vs Latin Small 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.

℮

Estimated Symbol

U+212E

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Latin Small Letter E

U+0065

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Property Comparison

Property	Estimated Symbol	Latin Small Letter E
Codepoint	`U+212E`	`U+0065`
Decimal	`8494`	`101`
HTML Entity	`℮`	`e`
HTML Decimal	`℮`	`e`
HTML Hex	`℮`	`e`
UTF-8	`E2 84 AE`	`65`
UTF-16	`21 2E`	`00 65`
UTF-32	`0000212E`	`00000065`
CSS Escape	`\212E`	`\65`
JS Escape	`\u212E`	`\u0065`
Python Escape	`\u212E`	`\u0065`
URL Encoded	`%E2%84%AE`	`e`
Category	`Other Symbol (So)`	`Lowercase Letter (Ll)`
Block	`Letterlike Symbols`	`Basic Latin`
Script	`Common`	`Latin`
Bidi Class	`ET`	`L`
Unicode Version	`1.1`	`1.1`

Rows highlighted in amber differ between the two characters.

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