What is the difference between Cjk Ideograph-4e8e and Katakana Letter Archaic Wu?

Cjk Ideograph-4e8e is U+4E8E in the CJK Unified Ideographs block. Katakana Letter Archaic Wu is U+1B122 in the Kana Extended-A block. They are distinct Unicode codepoints and may appear visually similar depending on the font.

What is the HTML entity for Cjk Ideograph-4e8e?

The HTML entity for Cjk Ideograph-4e8e (U+4E8E) is 于.

What is the HTML entity for Katakana Letter Archaic Wu?

The HTML entity for Katakana Letter Archaic Wu (U+1B122) is 𛄢.

Are Cjk Ideograph-4e8e and Katakana Letter Archaic Wu the same Unicode character?

No. Cjk Ideograph-4e8e is U+4E8E (decimal 20110) and Katakana Letter Archaic Wu is U+1B122 (decimal 110882). They are separate codepoints.

What are the UTF-8 encodings of Cjk Ideograph-4e8e and Katakana Letter Archaic Wu?

Cjk Ideograph-4e8e (U+4E8E) encodes as E4 BA 8E in UTF-8. Katakana Letter Archaic Wu (U+1B122) encodes as F0 9B 84 A2 in UTF-8.

Cjk Ideograph-4e8e vs Katakana Letter Archaic Wu

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.

于

Cjk Ideograph-4e8e

U+4E8E

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𛄢

Katakana Letter Archaic Wu

U+1B122

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Property Comparison

Property	Cjk Ideograph-4e8e	Katakana Letter Archaic Wu
Codepoint	`U+4E8E`	`U+1B122`
Decimal	`20110`	`110882`
HTML Entity	`于`	`𛄢`
HTML Decimal	`于`	`𛄢`
HTML Hex	`于`	`𛄢`
UTF-8	`E4 BA 8E`	`F0 9B 84 A2`
UTF-16	`4E 8E`	`D8 2C DD 22`
UTF-32	`00004E8E`	`0001B122`
CSS Escape	`\4E8E`	`\1B122`
JS Escape	`\u4E8E`	`\uD82C\uDD22`
Python Escape	`\u4E8E`	`\U0001B122`
URL Encoded	`%E4%BA%8E`	`%F0%9B%84%A2`
Category	`Other Letter (Lo)`	`Other Letter (Lo)`
Block	`CJK Unified Ideographs`	`Kana Extended-A`
Script	`Han`	`Katakana`
Bidi Class	`L`	`L`
Unicode Version	`1.1`	`14.0`

Rows highlighted in amber differ between the two characters.

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