What is the difference between Union and Latin Capital Letter U?

Union is U+222A in the Mathematical Operators block. Latin Capital Letter U is U+0055 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 Union?

The HTML entity for Union (U+222A) is ∪.

What is the HTML entity for Latin Capital Letter U?

The HTML entity for Latin Capital Letter U (U+0055) is U.

Are Union and Latin Capital Letter U the same Unicode character?

No. Union is U+222A (decimal 8746) and Latin Capital Letter U is U+0055 (decimal 85). They are separate codepoints.

What are the UTF-8 encodings of Union and Latin Capital Letter U?

Union (U+222A) encodes as E2 88 AA in UTF-8. Latin Capital Letter U (U+0055) encodes as 55 in UTF-8.

Union vs Latin Capital Letter U

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.

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Union

U+222A

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Latin Capital Letter U

U+0055

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Property Comparison

Property	Union	Latin Capital Letter U
Codepoint	`U+222A`	`U+0055`
Decimal	`8746`	`85`
HTML Entity	`∪`	`U`
HTML Decimal	`∪`	`U`
HTML Hex	`∪`	`U`
UTF-8	`E2 88 AA`	`55`
UTF-16	`22 2A`	`00 55`
UTF-32	`0000222A`	`00000055`
CSS Escape	`\222A`	`\55`
JS Escape	`\u222A`	`\u0055`
Python Escape	`\u222A`	`\u0055`
URL Encoded	`%E2%88%AA`	`U`
Category	`Math Symbol (Sm)`	`Uppercase Letter (Lu)`
Block	`Mathematical Operators`	`Basic Latin`
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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