What is the difference between White Hourglass and Carian Letter G?

White Hourglass is U+29D6 in the Miscellaneous Mathematical Symbols-B block. Carian Letter G is U+102C0 in the Carian block. They are distinct Unicode codepoints and may appear visually similar depending on the font.

What is the HTML entity for White Hourglass?

The HTML entity for White Hourglass (U+29D6) is ⧖.

What is the HTML entity for Carian Letter G?

The HTML entity for Carian Letter G (U+102C0) is 𐋀.

Are White Hourglass and Carian Letter G the same Unicode character?

No. White Hourglass is U+29D6 (decimal 10710) and Carian Letter G is U+102C0 (decimal 66240). They are separate codepoints.

What are the UTF-8 encodings of White Hourglass and Carian Letter G?

White Hourglass (U+29D6) encodes as E2 A7 96 in UTF-8. Carian Letter G (U+102C0) encodes as F0 90 8B 80 in UTF-8.

White Hourglass vs Carian Letter G

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.

⧖

White Hourglass

U+29D6

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𐋀

Carian Letter G

U+102C0

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Property Comparison

Property	White Hourglass	Carian Letter G
Codepoint	`U+29D6`	`U+102C0`
Decimal	`10710`	`66240`
HTML Entity	`⧖`	`𐋀`
HTML Decimal	`⧖`	`𐋀`
HTML Hex	`⧖`	`𐋀`
UTF-8	`E2 A7 96`	`F0 90 8B 80`
UTF-16	`29 D6`	`D8 00 DE C0`
UTF-32	`000029D6`	`000102C0`
CSS Escape	`\29D6`	`\102C0`
JS Escape	`\u29D6`	`\uD800\uDEC0`
Python Escape	`\u29D6`	`\U000102C0`
URL Encoded	`%E2%A7%96`	`%F0%90%8B%80`
Category	`Math Symbol (Sm)`	`Other Letter (Lo)`
Block	`Miscellaneous Mathematical Symbols-B`	`Carian`
Script	`Common`	`Carian`
Bidi Class	`ON`	`L`
Unicode Version	`3.2`	`5.1`

Rows highlighted in amber differ between the two characters.

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