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Greek Small Letter Pi vs Much Less-Than

π
Greek Small Letter Pi
03C0
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Much Less-Than
226A
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Property Comparison

Property π 03C0 ≪ 226A
Name Greek Small Letter Pi Much Less-Than
Category Math Symbols Math Symbols
Block Greek and Coptic Mathematical Operators
Script Grek Zyyy
General Category Lowercase Letter (Ll) Math Symbol (Sm)
Bidirectional L ON

Encoding Comparison

Format 03C0 226A
Unicode U+03C0 U+226A
HTML Decimal π ≪
HTML Hex π ≪
CSS \03C0 \226A
JavaScript \u{3C0} \u{226A}
Python \u03c0 \u226a
UTF-8 cf 80 e2 89 aa

How to Distinguish

Both Greek Small Letter Pi and Much Less-Than 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.

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