Greek Small Letter Pi vs Left S-Shaped Bag Delimiter
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Property Comparison
| Property | π 03C0 | ⟅ 27C5 |
|---|---|---|
| Name | Greek Small Letter Pi | Left S-Shaped Bag Delimiter |
| Category | Math Symbols | Math Symbols |
| Block | Greek and Coptic | Miscellaneous Mathematical Symbols-A |
| Script | Grek | Zyyy |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter (Ll) | Open Punctuation (Ps) |
| Bidirectional | L | ON |
Encoding Comparison
| Format | 03C0 | 27C5 |
|---|---|---|
| Unicode | U+03C0 | U+27C5 |
| HTML Decimal | π | ⟅ |
| HTML Hex | π | ⟅ |
| CSS | \03C0 | \27C5 |
| JavaScript | \u{3C0} | \u{27C5} |
| Python | \u03c0 | \u27c5 |
| UTF-8 | cf 80 | e2 9f 85 |
How to Distinguish
Both Greek Small Letter Pi and Left S-Shaped Bag Delimiter are in the Math Symbols category but reside in different Unicode blocks. Check the codepoint to tell them apart.
Tip: Paste the character into a hex editor or use
charCodeAt()
in JavaScript to check the actual codepoint.