Micro Sign vs Greek Small Letter Mu

Compare the micro sign and Greek small letter mu -- two characters that look identical but exist as separate Unicode code points for historical encoding reasons.

Micro Sign
U+00B5
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Greek Small Letter Mu
U+03BC
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Detailed Comparison

Property Micro Sign Greek Small Letter Mu
Character µ μ
Code Point U+00B5 U+03BC
Decimal 181 956
Unicode Name MICRO SIGN GREEK SMALL LETTER MU
Category Lowercase Letter Lowercase Letter
Block
HTML µ μ
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