What is the difference between Coptic Small Letter Psi and Greek Small Letter Psi?

Coptic Small Letter Psi is U+2CAF in the Coptic block. Greek Small Letter Psi is U+03C8 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 Small Letter Psi?

The HTML entity for Coptic Small Letter Psi (U+2CAF) is ⲯ.

What is the HTML entity for Greek Small Letter Psi?

The HTML entity for Greek Small Letter Psi (U+03C8) is ψ.

Are Coptic Small Letter Psi and Greek Small Letter Psi the same Unicode character?

No. Coptic Small Letter Psi is U+2CAF (decimal 11439) and Greek Small Letter Psi is U+03C8 (decimal 968). They are separate codepoints.

What are the UTF-8 encodings of Coptic Small Letter Psi and Greek Small Letter Psi?

Coptic Small Letter Psi (U+2CAF) encodes as E2 B2 AF in UTF-8. Greek Small Letter Psi (U+03C8) encodes as CF 88 in UTF-8.

Coptic Small Letter Psi vs Greek Small Letter Psi

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.

ⲯ

Coptic Small Letter Psi

U+2CAF

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Greek Small Letter Psi

U+03C8

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Property Comparison

Property	Coptic Small Letter Psi	Greek Small Letter Psi
Codepoint	`U+2CAF`	`U+03C8`
Decimal	`11439`	`968`
HTML Entity	`ⲯ`	`ψ`
HTML Decimal	`ⲯ`	`ψ`
HTML Hex	`ⲯ`	`ψ`
UTF-8	`E2 B2 AF`	`CF 88`
UTF-16	`2C AF`	`03 C8`
UTF-32	`00002CAF`	`000003C8`
CSS Escape	`\2CAF`	`\3C8`
JS Escape	`\u2CAF`	`\u03C8`
Python Escape	`\u2CAF`	`\u03C8`
URL Encoded	`%E2%B2%AF`	`%CF%88`
Category	`Lowercase Letter (Ll)`	`Lowercase Letter (Ll)`
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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