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Greek Small Letter Pi vs Square Root

π
Greek Small Letter Pi
03C0
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Square Root
221A
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Property Comparison

Property π 03C0 √ 221A
Name Greek Small Letter Pi Square Root
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 221A
Unicode U+03C0 U+221A
HTML Decimal π √
HTML Hex π √
CSS \03C0 \221A
JavaScript \u{3C0} \u{221A}
Python \u03c0 \u221a
UTF-8 cf 80 e2 88 9a

How to Distinguish

Both Greek Small Letter Pi and Square Root 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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