What is the difference between Coptic Small Letter Sampi and Greek Rho With Stroke Symbol?

Coptic Small Letter Sampi is U+2CC1 in the Coptic block. Greek Rho With Stroke Symbol is U+03FC 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 Sampi?

The HTML entity for Coptic Small Letter Sampi (U+2CC1) is ⳁ.

What is the HTML entity for Greek Rho With Stroke Symbol?

The HTML entity for Greek Rho With Stroke Symbol (U+03FC) is ϼ.

Are Coptic Small Letter Sampi and Greek Rho With Stroke Symbol the same Unicode character?

No. Coptic Small Letter Sampi is U+2CC1 (decimal 11457) and Greek Rho With Stroke Symbol is U+03FC (decimal 1020). They are separate codepoints.

What are the UTF-8 encodings of Coptic Small Letter Sampi and Greek Rho With Stroke Symbol?

Coptic Small Letter Sampi (U+2CC1) encodes as E2 B3 81 in UTF-8. Greek Rho With Stroke Symbol (U+03FC) encodes as CF BC in UTF-8.

Coptic Small Letter Sampi vs Greek Rho With Stroke Symbol

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.

ⳁ

Coptic Small Letter Sampi

U+2CC1

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Greek Rho With Stroke Symbol

U+03FC

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Property Comparison

Property	Coptic Small Letter Sampi	Greek Rho With Stroke Symbol
Codepoint	`U+2CC1`	`U+03FC`
Decimal	`11457`	`1020`
HTML Entity	`ⳁ`	`ϼ`
HTML Decimal	`ⳁ`	`ϼ`
HTML Hex	`ⳁ`	`ϼ`
UTF-8	`E2 B3 81`	`CF BC`
UTF-16	`2C C1`	`03 FC`
UTF-32	`00002CC1`	`000003FC`
CSS Escape	`\2CC1`	`\3FC`
JS Escape	`\u2CC1`	`\u03FC`
Python Escape	`\u2CC1`	`\u03FC`
URL Encoded	`%E2%B3%81`	`%CF%BC`
Category	`Lowercase Letter (Ll)`	`Lowercase Letter (Ll)`
Block	`Coptic`	`Greek and Coptic`
Script	`Coptic`	`Greek`
Bidi Class	`L`	`L`
Unicode Version	`4.1`	`4.1`

Rows highlighted in amber differ between the two characters.

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