What is the difference between White Up-pointing Triangle and Greek Capital Letter Delta?

White Up-pointing Triangle is U+25B3 in the Geometric Shapes 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 White Up-pointing Triangle?

The HTML entity for White Up-pointing Triangle (U+25B3) is △.

What is the HTML entity for Greek Capital Letter Delta?

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

Are White Up-pointing Triangle and Greek Capital Letter Delta the same Unicode character?

No. White Up-pointing Triangle is U+25B3 (decimal 9651) and Greek Capital Letter Delta is U+0394 (decimal 916). They are separate codepoints.

What are the UTF-8 encodings of White Up-pointing Triangle and Greek Capital Letter Delta?

White Up-pointing Triangle (U+25B3) encodes as E2 96 B3 in UTF-8. Greek Capital Letter Delta (U+0394) encodes as CE 94 in UTF-8.

White Up-pointing Triangle 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.

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White Up-pointing Triangle

U+25B3

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Greek Capital Letter Delta

U+0394

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Property Comparison

Property	White Up-pointing Triangle	Greek Capital Letter Delta
Codepoint	`U+25B3`	`U+0394`
Decimal	`9651`	`916`
HTML Entity	`△`	`Δ`
HTML Decimal	`△`	`Δ`
HTML Hex	`△`	`Δ`
UTF-8	`E2 96 B3`	`CE 94`
UTF-16	`25 B3`	`03 94`
UTF-32	`000025B3`	`00000394`
CSS Escape	`\25B3`	`\394`
JS Escape	`\u25B3`	`\u0394`
Python Escape	`\u25B3`	`\u0394`
URL Encoded	`%E2%96%B3`	`%CE%94`
Category	`Other Symbol (So)`	`Uppercase Letter (Lu)`
Block	`Geometric Shapes`	`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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