What is the difference between Coptic Capital Letter Dalda and Greek Capital Letter Delta?

Coptic Capital Letter Dalda is U+2C86 in the Coptic block. Greek Capital Letter Delta is U+0394 in the Greek and Coptic block. They are distinct Unicode codepoints and may appear visually similar depending on the font.

What is the HTML entity for Coptic Capital Letter Dalda?

The HTML entity for Coptic Capital Letter Dalda (U+2C86) is Ⲇ.

What is the HTML entity for Greek Capital Letter Delta?

The HTML entity for Greek Capital Letter Delta (U+0394) is Δ.

Are Coptic Capital Letter Dalda and Greek Capital Letter Delta the same Unicode character?

No. Coptic Capital Letter Dalda is U+2C86 (decimal 11398) and Greek Capital Letter Delta is U+0394 (decimal 916). They are separate codepoints.

What are the UTF-8 encodings of Coptic Capital Letter Dalda and Greek Capital Letter Delta?

Coptic Capital Letter Dalda (U+2C86) encodes as E2 B2 86 in UTF-8. Greek Capital Letter Delta (U+0394) encodes as CE 94 in UTF-8.

Coptic Capital Letter Dalda vs Greek Capital Letter Delta

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.

Ⲇ

Coptic Capital Letter Dalda

U+2C86

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Greek Capital Letter Delta

U+0394

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Property Comparison

Property	Coptic Capital Letter Dalda	Greek Capital Letter Delta
Codepoint	`U+2C86`	`U+0394`
Decimal	`11398`	`916`
HTML Entity	`Ⲇ`	`Δ`
HTML Decimal	`Ⲇ`	`Δ`
HTML Hex	`Ⲇ`	`Δ`
UTF-8	`E2 B2 86`	`CE 94`
UTF-16	`2C 86`	`03 94`
UTF-32	`00002C86`	`00000394`
CSS Escape	`\2C86`	`\394`
JS Escape	`\u2C86`	`\u0394`
Python Escape	`\u2C86`	`\u0394`
URL Encoded	`%E2%B2%86`	`%CE%94`
Category	`Uppercase Letter (Lu)`	`Uppercase Letter (Lu)`
Block	`Coptic`	`Greek and Coptic`
Script	`Coptic`	`Greek`
Bidi Class	`L`	`L`
Unicode Version	`4.1`	`1.1`

Rows highlighted in amber differ between the two characters.

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