What is the difference between Perpendicular and Lisu Letter Tha?

Perpendicular is U+27C2 in the Miscellaneous Mathematical Symbols-A block. Lisu Letter Tha is U+A4D5 in the Lisu block. They are distinct Unicode codepoints and may appear visually similar depending on the font.

What is the HTML entity for Perpendicular?

The HTML entity for Perpendicular (U+27C2) is ⟂.

What is the HTML entity for Lisu Letter Tha?

The HTML entity for Lisu Letter Tha (U+A4D5) is ꓕ.

Are Perpendicular and Lisu Letter Tha the same Unicode character?

No. Perpendicular is U+27C2 (decimal 10178) and Lisu Letter Tha is U+A4D5 (decimal 42197). They are separate codepoints.

What are the UTF-8 encodings of Perpendicular and Lisu Letter Tha?

Perpendicular (U+27C2) encodes as E2 9F 82 in UTF-8. Lisu Letter Tha (U+A4D5) encodes as EA 93 95 in UTF-8.

Perpendicular vs Lisu Letter Tha

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.

⟂

Perpendicular

U+27C2

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ꓕ

Lisu Letter Tha

U+A4D5

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Property Comparison

Property	Perpendicular	Lisu Letter Tha
Codepoint	`U+27C2`	`U+A4D5`
Decimal	`10178`	`42197`
HTML Entity	`⟂`	`ꓕ`
HTML Decimal	`⟂`	`ꓕ`
HTML Hex	`⟂`	`ꓕ`
UTF-8	`E2 9F 82`	`EA 93 95`
UTF-16	`27 C2`	`A4 D5`
UTF-32	`000027C2`	`0000A4D5`
CSS Escape	`\27C2`	`\A4D5`
JS Escape	`\u27C2`	`\uA4D5`
Python Escape	`\u27C2`	`\uA4D5`
URL Encoded	`%E2%9F%82`	`%EA%93%95`
Category	`Math Symbol (Sm)`	`Other Letter (Lo)`
Block	`Miscellaneous Mathematical Symbols-A`	`Lisu`
Script	`Common`	`Lisu`
Bidi Class	`ON`	`L`
Unicode Version	`4.1`	`5.2`

Rows highlighted in amber differ between the two characters.

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