What is the difference between N-ary Square Intersection Operator and Square Cap?

N-ary Square Intersection Operator is U+2A05 in the Supplemental Mathematical Operators block. Square Cap is U+2293 in the Mathematical Operators block. They are distinct Unicode codepoints and may appear visually similar depending on the font.

What is the HTML entity for N-ary Square Intersection Operator?

The HTML entity for N-ary Square Intersection Operator (U+2A05) is ⨅.

What is the HTML entity for Square Cap?

The HTML entity for Square Cap (U+2293) is ⊓.

Are N-ary Square Intersection Operator and Square Cap the same Unicode character?

No. N-ary Square Intersection Operator is U+2A05 (decimal 10757) and Square Cap is U+2293 (decimal 8851). They are separate codepoints.

What are the UTF-8 encodings of N-ary Square Intersection Operator and Square Cap?

N-ary Square Intersection Operator (U+2A05) encodes as E2 A8 85 in UTF-8. Square Cap (U+2293) encodes as E2 8A 93 in UTF-8.

N-ary Square Intersection Operator vs Square Cap

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.

⨅

N-ary Square Intersection Operator

U+2A05

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⊓

Square Cap

U+2293

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Property Comparison

Property	N-ary Square Intersection Operator	Square Cap
Codepoint	`U+2A05`	`U+2293`
Decimal	`10757`	`8851`
HTML Entity	`⨅`	`⊓`
HTML Decimal	`⨅`	`⊓`
HTML Hex	`⨅`	`⊓`
UTF-8	`E2 A8 85`	`E2 8A 93`
UTF-16	`2A 05`	`22 93`
UTF-32	`00002A05`	`00002293`
CSS Escape	`\2A05`	`\2293`
JS Escape	`\u2A05`	`\u2293`
Python Escape	`\u2A05`	`\u2293`
URL Encoded	`%E2%A8%85`	`%E2%8A%93`
Category	`Math Symbol (Sm)`	`Math Symbol (Sm)`
Block	`Supplemental Mathematical Operators`	`Mathematical Operators`
Script	`Common`	`Common`
Bidi Class	`ON`	`ON`
Unicode Version	`3.2`	`1.1`

Rows highlighted in amber differ between the two characters.

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