What is the difference between Smaller Than and Canadian Syllabics Carrier Wa?

Smaller Than is U+2AAA in the Supplemental Mathematical Operators block. Canadian Syllabics Carrier Wa is U+15D5 in the Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics block. They are distinct Unicode codepoints and may appear visually similar depending on the font.

What is the HTML entity for Smaller Than?

The HTML entity for Smaller Than (U+2AAA) is ⪪.

What is the HTML entity for Canadian Syllabics Carrier Wa?

The HTML entity for Canadian Syllabics Carrier Wa (U+15D5) is ᗕ.

Are Smaller Than and Canadian Syllabics Carrier Wa the same Unicode character?

No. Smaller Than is U+2AAA (decimal 10922) and Canadian Syllabics Carrier Wa is U+15D5 (decimal 5589). They are separate codepoints.

What are the UTF-8 encodings of Smaller Than and Canadian Syllabics Carrier Wa?

Smaller Than (U+2AAA) encodes as E2 AA AA in UTF-8. Canadian Syllabics Carrier Wa (U+15D5) encodes as E1 97 95 in UTF-8.

Smaller Than vs Canadian Syllabics Carrier Wa

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.

⪪

Smaller Than

U+2AAA

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ᗕ

Canadian Syllabics Carrier Wa

U+15D5

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Property Comparison

Property	Smaller Than	Canadian Syllabics Carrier Wa
Codepoint	`U+2AAA`	`U+15D5`
Decimal	`10922`	`5589`
HTML Entity	`⪪`	`ᗕ`
HTML Decimal	`⪪`	`ᗕ`
HTML Hex	`⪪`	`ᗕ`
UTF-8	`E2 AA AA`	`E1 97 95`
UTF-16	`2A AA`	`15 D5`
UTF-32	`00002AAA`	`000015D5`
CSS Escape	`\2AAA`	`\15D5`
JS Escape	`\u2AAA`	`\u15D5`
Python Escape	`\u2AAA`	`\u15D5`
URL Encoded	`%E2%AA%AA`	`%E1%97%95`
Category	`Math Symbol (Sm)`	`Other Letter (Lo)`
Block	`Supplemental Mathematical Operators`	`Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics`
Script	`Common`	`Canadian Aboriginal`
Bidi Class	`ON`	`L`
Unicode Version	`3.2`	`3.0`

Rows highlighted in amber differ between the two characters.

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