What is the difference between Gimel Symbol and Hebrew Letter Gimel?

Gimel Symbol is U+2137 in the Letterlike Symbols block. Hebrew Letter Gimel is U+05D2 in the Hebrew block. They are distinct Unicode codepoints and may appear visually similar depending on the font.

What is the HTML entity for Gimel Symbol?

The HTML entity for Gimel Symbol (U+2137) is ℷ.

What is the HTML entity for Hebrew Letter Gimel?

The HTML entity for Hebrew Letter Gimel (U+05D2) is ג.

Are Gimel Symbol and Hebrew Letter Gimel the same Unicode character?

No. Gimel Symbol is U+2137 (decimal 8503) and Hebrew Letter Gimel is U+05D2 (decimal 1490). They are separate codepoints.

What are the UTF-8 encodings of Gimel Symbol and Hebrew Letter Gimel?

Gimel Symbol (U+2137) encodes as E2 84 B7 in UTF-8. Hebrew Letter Gimel (U+05D2) encodes as D7 92 in UTF-8.

Gimel Symbol vs Hebrew Letter Gimel

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.

ℷ

Gimel Symbol

U+2137

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Hebrew Letter Gimel

U+05D2

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Property Comparison

Property	Gimel Symbol	Hebrew Letter Gimel
Codepoint	`U+2137`	`U+05D2`
Decimal	`8503`	`1490`
HTML Entity	`ℷ`	`ג`
HTML Decimal	`ℷ`	`ג`
HTML Hex	`ℷ`	`ג`
UTF-8	`E2 84 B7`	`D7 92`
UTF-16	`21 37`	`05 D2`
UTF-32	`00002137`	`000005D2`
CSS Escape	`\2137`	`\5D2`
JS Escape	`\u2137`	`\u05D2`
Python Escape	`\u2137`	`\u05D2`
URL Encoded	`%E2%84%B7`	`%D7%92`
Category	`Other Letter (Lo)`	`Other Letter (Lo)`
Block	`Letterlike Symbols`	`Hebrew`
Script	`Common`	`Hebrew`
Bidi Class	`L`	`R`
Unicode Version	`1.1`	`1.1`

Rows highlighted in amber differ between the two characters.

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