What is the difference between Latin Small Letter H With Palatal Hook and Latin Small Letter Heng?

Latin Small Letter H With Palatal Hook is U+A795 in the Latin Extended-D block. Latin Small Letter Heng is U+A727 in the Latin Extended-D block. They are distinct Unicode codepoints and may appear visually similar depending on the font.

What is the HTML entity for Latin Small Letter H With Palatal Hook?

The HTML entity for Latin Small Letter H With Palatal Hook (U+A795) is ꞕ.

What is the HTML entity for Latin Small Letter Heng?

The HTML entity for Latin Small Letter Heng (U+A727) is ꜧ.

Are Latin Small Letter H With Palatal Hook and Latin Small Letter Heng the same Unicode character?

No. Latin Small Letter H With Palatal Hook is U+A795 (decimal 42901) and Latin Small Letter Heng is U+A727 (decimal 42791). They are separate codepoints.

What are the UTF-8 encodings of Latin Small Letter H With Palatal Hook and Latin Small Letter Heng?

Latin Small Letter H With Palatal Hook (U+A795) encodes as EA 9E 95 in UTF-8. Latin Small Letter Heng (U+A727) encodes as EA 9C A7 in UTF-8.

Latin Small Letter H With Palatal Hook vs Latin Small Letter Heng

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.

ꞕ

Latin Small Letter H With Palatal Hook

U+A795

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ꜧ

Latin Small Letter Heng

U+A727

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Property Comparison

Property	Latin Small Letter H With Palatal Hook	Latin Small Letter Heng
Codepoint	`U+A795`	`U+A727`
Decimal	`42901`	`42791`
HTML Entity	`ꞕ`	`ꜧ`
HTML Decimal	`ꞕ`	`ꜧ`
HTML Hex	`ꞕ`	`ꜧ`
UTF-8	`EA 9E 95`	`EA 9C A7`
UTF-16	`A7 95`	`A7 27`
UTF-32	`0000A795`	`0000A727`
CSS Escape	`\A795`	`\A727`
JS Escape	`\uA795`	`\uA727`
Python Escape	`\uA795`	`\uA727`
URL Encoded	`%EA%9E%95`	`%EA%9C%A7`
Category	`Lowercase Letter (Ll)`	`Lowercase Letter (Ll)`
Block	`Latin Extended-D`	`Latin Extended-D`
Script	`Latin`	`Latin`
Bidi Class	`L`	`L`
Unicode Version	`7.0`	`5.1`

Rows highlighted in amber differ between the two characters.

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