What is the difference between Rising Diagonal Crossing Falling Diagonal and Latin Small Letter X?

Rising Diagonal Crossing Falling Diagonal is U+292B in the Supplemental Arrows-B block. Latin Small Letter X is U+0078 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 Rising Diagonal Crossing Falling Diagonal?

The HTML entity for Rising Diagonal Crossing Falling Diagonal (U+292B) is ⤫.

What is the HTML entity for Latin Small Letter X?

The HTML entity for Latin Small Letter X (U+0078) is x.

Are Rising Diagonal Crossing Falling Diagonal and Latin Small Letter X the same Unicode character?

No. Rising Diagonal Crossing Falling Diagonal is U+292B (decimal 10539) and Latin Small Letter X is U+0078 (decimal 120). They are separate codepoints.

What are the UTF-8 encodings of Rising Diagonal Crossing Falling Diagonal and Latin Small Letter X?

Rising Diagonal Crossing Falling Diagonal (U+292B) encodes as E2 A4 AB in UTF-8. Latin Small Letter X (U+0078) encodes as 78 in UTF-8.

Rising Diagonal Crossing Falling Diagonal vs Latin Small Letter X

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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Rising Diagonal Crossing Falling Diagonal

U+292B

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Latin Small Letter X

U+0078

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Property Comparison

Property	Rising Diagonal Crossing Falling Diagonal	Latin Small Letter X
Codepoint	`U+292B`	`U+0078`
Decimal	`10539`	`120`
HTML Entity	`⤫`	`x`
HTML Decimal	`⤫`	`x`
HTML Hex	`⤫`	`x`
UTF-8	`E2 A4 AB`	`78`
UTF-16	`29 2B`	`00 78`
UTF-32	`0000292B`	`00000078`
CSS Escape	`\292B`	`\78`
JS Escape	`\u292B`	`\u0078`
Python Escape	`\u292B`	`\u0078`
URL Encoded	`%E2%A4%AB`	`x`
Category	`Math Symbol (Sm)`	`Lowercase Letter (Ll)`
Block	`Supplemental Arrows-B`	`Basic Latin`
Script	`Common`	`Latin`
Bidi Class	`ON`	`L`
Unicode Version	`3.2`	`1.1`

Rows highlighted in amber differ between the two characters.

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