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

Falling Diagonal Crossing Rising Diagonal is U+292C 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 Falling Diagonal Crossing Rising Diagonal?

The HTML entity for Falling Diagonal Crossing Rising Diagonal (U+292C) is ⤬.

What is the HTML entity for Latin Small Letter X?

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

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

No. Falling Diagonal Crossing Rising Diagonal is U+292C (decimal 10540) and Latin Small Letter X is U+0078 (decimal 120). They are separate codepoints.

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

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

Falling Diagonal Crossing Rising 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.

⤬

Falling Diagonal Crossing Rising Diagonal

U+292C

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Latin Small Letter X

U+0078

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Property Comparison

Property	Falling Diagonal Crossing Rising Diagonal	Latin Small Letter X
Codepoint	`U+292C`	`U+0078`
Decimal	`10540`	`120`
HTML Entity	`⤬`	`x`
HTML Decimal	`⤬`	`x`
HTML Hex	`⤬`	`x`
UTF-8	`E2 A4 AC`	`78`
UTF-16	`29 2C`	`00 78`
UTF-32	`0000292C`	`00000078`
CSS Escape	`\292C`	`\78`
JS Escape	`\u292C`	`\u0078`
Python Escape	`\u292C`	`\u0078`
URL Encoded	`%E2%A4%AC`	`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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