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Greek Capital Letter Sigma vs Greek Small Letter Lamda

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Greek Capital Letter Sigma
03A3
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λ
Greek Small Letter Lamda
03BB
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Property Comparison

Property Σ 03A3 λ 03BB
Name Greek Capital Letter Sigma Greek Small Letter Lamda
Category Greek Letters Greek Letters
Block Greek and Coptic Greek and Coptic
Script Grek Grek
General Category Uppercase Letter (Lu) Lowercase Letter (Ll)
Bidirectional L L

Encoding Comparison

Format 03A3 03BB
Unicode U+03A3 U+03BB
HTML Decimal Σ λ
HTML Hex Σ λ
CSS \03A3 \03BB
JavaScript \u{3A3} \u{3BB}
Python \u03a3 \u03bb
UTF-8 ce a3 ce bb

How to Distinguish

Both Greek Capital Letter Sigma and Greek Small Letter Lamda belong to the Greek Letters category and the Greek and Coptic block. Compare their codepoints and visual rendering to distinguish them.

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