What is the difference between Increment and Greek Capital Letter Delta?

Increment is U+2206 in the Mathematical Operators block. Greek Capital Letter Delta is U+0394 in the Greek and Coptic block. They are distinct Unicode codepoints and may appear visually similar depending on the font.

What is the HTML entity for Increment?

The HTML entity for Increment (U+2206) is ∆.

What is the HTML entity for Greek Capital Letter Delta?

The HTML entity for Greek Capital Letter Delta (U+0394) is Δ.

Are Increment and Greek Capital Letter Delta the same Unicode character?

No. Increment is U+2206 (decimal 8710) and Greek Capital Letter Delta is U+0394 (decimal 916). They are separate codepoints.

What are the UTF-8 encodings of Increment and Greek Capital Letter Delta?

Increment (U+2206) encodes as E2 88 86 in UTF-8. Greek Capital Letter Delta (U+0394) encodes as CE 94 in UTF-8.

Increment vs Greek Capital Letter Delta

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.

∆

Increment

U+2206

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Greek Capital Letter Delta

U+0394

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Property Comparison

Property	Increment	Greek Capital Letter Delta
Codepoint	`U+2206`	`U+0394`
Decimal	`8710`	`916`
HTML Entity	`∆`	`Δ`
HTML Decimal	`∆`	`Δ`
HTML Hex	`∆`	`Δ`
UTF-8	`E2 88 86`	`CE 94`
UTF-16	`22 06`	`03 94`
UTF-32	`00002206`	`00000394`
CSS Escape	`\2206`	`\394`
JS Escape	`\u2206`	`\u0394`
Python Escape	`\u2206`	`\u0394`
URL Encoded	`%E2%88%86`	`%CE%94`
Category	`Math Symbol (Sm)`	`Uppercase Letter (Lu)`
Block	`Mathematical Operators`	`Greek and Coptic`
Script	`Common`	`Greek`
Bidi Class	`ON`	`L`
Unicode Version	`1.1`	`1.1`

Rows highlighted in amber differ between the two characters.

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