What is the difference between Sun and Latin Letter Bilabial Click?

Sun is U+2609 in the Miscellaneous Symbols block. Latin Letter Bilabial Click is U+0298 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 Sun?

The HTML entity for Sun (U+2609) is ☉.

What is the HTML entity for Latin Letter Bilabial Click?

The HTML entity for Latin Letter Bilabial Click (U+0298) is ʘ.

Are Sun and Latin Letter Bilabial Click the same Unicode character?

No. Sun is U+2609 (decimal 9737) and Latin Letter Bilabial Click is U+0298 (decimal 664). They are separate codepoints.

What are the UTF-8 encodings of Sun and Latin Letter Bilabial Click?

Sun (U+2609) encodes as E2 98 89 in UTF-8. Latin Letter Bilabial Click (U+0298) encodes as CA 98 in UTF-8.

Sun vs Latin Letter Bilabial Click

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.

☉

Sun

U+2609

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Latin Letter Bilabial Click

U+0298

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Property Comparison

Property	Sun	Latin Letter Bilabial Click
Codepoint	`U+2609`	`U+0298`
Decimal	`9737`	`664`
HTML Entity	`☉`	`ʘ`
HTML Decimal	`☉`	`ʘ`
HTML Hex	`☉`	`ʘ`
UTF-8	`E2 98 89`	`CA 98`
UTF-16	`26 09`	`02 98`
UTF-32	`00002609`	`00000298`
CSS Escape	`\2609`	`\298`
JS Escape	`\u2609`	`\u0298`
Python Escape	`\u2609`	`\u0298`
URL Encoded	`%E2%98%89`	`%CA%98`
Category	`Other Symbol (So)`	`Lowercase Letter (Ll)`
Block	`Miscellaneous Symbols`	`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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