What is the difference between Integral and Latin Small Letter Esh?

Integral is U+222B in the Mathematical Operators block. Latin Small Letter Esh is U+0283 in the IPA Extensions block. They are distinct Unicode codepoints and may appear visually similar depending on the font.

What is the HTML entity for Integral?

The HTML entity for Integral (U+222B) is ∫.

What is the HTML entity for Latin Small Letter Esh?

The HTML entity for Latin Small Letter Esh (U+0283) is ʃ.

Are Integral and Latin Small Letter Esh the same Unicode character?

No. Integral is U+222B (decimal 8747) and Latin Small Letter Esh is U+0283 (decimal 643). They are separate codepoints.

What are the UTF-8 encodings of Integral and Latin Small Letter Esh?

Integral (U+222B) encodes as E2 88 AB in UTF-8. Latin Small Letter Esh (U+0283) encodes as CA 83 in UTF-8.

Integral vs Latin Small Letter Esh

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.

∫

Integral

U+222B

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Latin Small Letter Esh

U+0283

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Property Comparison

Property	Integral	Latin Small Letter Esh
Codepoint	`U+222B`	`U+0283`
Decimal	`8747`	`643`
HTML Entity	`∫`	`ʃ`
HTML Decimal	`∫`	`ʃ`
HTML Hex	`∫`	`ʃ`
UTF-8	`E2 88 AB`	`CA 83`
UTF-16	`22 2B`	`02 83`
UTF-32	`0000222B`	`00000283`
CSS Escape	`\222B`	`\283`
JS Escape	`\u222B`	`\u0283`
Python Escape	`\u222B`	`\u0283`
URL Encoded	`%E2%88%AB`	`%CA%83`
Category	`Math Symbol (Sm)`	`Lowercase Letter (Ll)`
Block	`Mathematical Operators`	`IPA Extensions`
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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