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Unless two characters are canonically equivalent, they are not "duplicate" in the narrow sense. There is, however, room for disagreement on whether two Unicode characters really encode the same [[grapheme]] in cases such as the "micro sign" [[Micro-|µ]] vs. the Greek [[μ]].
 
This should be clearly distinguished from Unicode characters that are rendered as identical glyphs or near-identical glyphs ([[homoglyph]]s), either because they are historically cognate (such as Greek [[Η]] vs. Latin [[H]]) or because of coincidental similarity (such as Greek [[Ρ]] vs. Latin [[P]], or Greek Η vs. Cyrillic [[Н]], or the following homoglyphshomoglyph quadrupletsextuplet: astronomical symbol for "Sun" [[☉]], "circled dot operator" [[⊙]], the Gothic letter [[𐍈]], the IPA symbol for a bilabial click {{IPA link|ʘ}}, the Osage letter 𐓃, the Tifinagh letter ⵙ).
 
==Duplicate vs. derived character==