What is the difference between Down Tack and Latin Capital Letter T?

Down Tack is U+22A4 in the Mathematical Operators block. Latin Capital Letter T is U+0054 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 Down Tack?

The HTML entity for Down Tack (U+22A4) is ⊤.

What is the HTML entity for Latin Capital Letter T?

The HTML entity for Latin Capital Letter T (U+0054) is T.

Are Down Tack and Latin Capital Letter T the same Unicode character?

No. Down Tack is U+22A4 (decimal 8868) and Latin Capital Letter T is U+0054 (decimal 84). They are separate codepoints.

What are the UTF-8 encodings of Down Tack and Latin Capital Letter T?

Down Tack (U+22A4) encodes as E2 8A A4 in UTF-8. Latin Capital Letter T (U+0054) encodes as 54 in UTF-8.

Down Tack vs Latin Capital Letter T

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.

⊤

Down Tack

U+22A4

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Latin Capital Letter T

U+0054

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Property Comparison

Property	Down Tack	Latin Capital Letter T
Codepoint	`U+22A4`	`U+0054`
Decimal	`8868`	`84`
HTML Entity	`⊤`	`T`
HTML Decimal	`⊤`	`T`
HTML Hex	`⊤`	`T`
UTF-8	`E2 8A A4`	`54`
UTF-16	`22 A4`	`00 54`
UTF-32	`000022A4`	`00000054`
CSS Escape	`\22A4`	`\54`
JS Escape	`\u22A4`	`\u0054`
Python Escape	`\u22A4`	`\u0054`
URL Encoded	`%E2%8A%A4`	`T`
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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