ώ is the Unicode character GREEK SMALL LETTER OMEGA WITH TONOS, code point U+03CE (decimal 974) in the Greek and Coptic block, added in Unicode 1.1. In HTML write ώ, and in UTF-8 it is the 2 bytes CF 8E.
Codes
| Where | How to write it |
|---|---|
| Code point | U+03CE |
| Decimal | 974 |
| UTF-8 bytes | CF 8E |
| UTF-16 (big-endian) | 03CE |
| UTF-32 | 000003CE |
| HTML decimal | ώ |
| HTML hex | ώ |
| CSS | \3CE |
| JavaScript | \u03CE |
| JSON | \u03CE |
| Python | \u03CE |
| Python by name | \N{GREEK SMALL LETTER OMEGA WITH TONOS} |
| Java, C# | \u03CE |
| Rust, Swift | \u{3CE} |
| Go, C, C++ | \u03CE |
| URL (percent-encoded) | %CF%8E |
JavaScript and JSON strings store text as UTF-16, so this character is one code unit long. Python 3 strings count code points, so its length there is 1.
Properties
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Name | GREEK SMALL LETTER OMEGA WITH TONOS |
| Code point | U+03CE (decimal 974) |
| Block | Greek and Coptic (U+0370–U+03FF) |
| General category | Ll: Lowercase letter |
| Script | Greek |
| Bidirectional class | L: Left-to-right |
| Mirrored in right-to-left text | No |
| First in Unicode version | 1.1 |
Decomposition
GREEK SMALL LETTER OMEGA WITH TONOS is canonically equivalent to the sequence below. Normalising text to NFD splits it into these parts; NFC joins them back into U+03CE. Search and comparison should normalise first, or the two spellings will not match.
Upper and lower case
- Ώ U+038F Greek Capital Letter Omega With Tonos — Uppercase
Nearby in Greek and Coptic
- φ U+03C6 Greek Small Letter Phi
- χ U+03C7 Greek Small Letter Chi
- ψ U+03C8 Greek Small Letter Psi
- ω U+03C9 Greek Small Letter Omega
- ϊ U+03CA Greek Small Letter Iota With Dialytika
- ϋ U+03CB Greek Small Letter Upsilon With Dialytika
- ό U+03CC Greek Small Letter Omicron With Tonos
- ύ U+03CD Greek Small Letter Upsilon With Tonos
- Ϗ U+03CF Greek Capital Kai Symbol
- ϐ U+03D0 Greek Beta Symbol
- ϑ U+03D1 Greek Theta Symbol
- ϒ U+03D2 Greek Upsilon With Hook Symbol
- ϓ U+03D3 Greek Upsilon With Acute And Hook Symbol
- ϔ U+03D4 Greek Upsilon With Diaeresis And Hook Symbol
- ϕ U+03D5 Greek Phi Symbol
- ϖ U+03D6 Greek Pi Symbol
All 135 characters: Greek and Coptic.
Official reference
Questions people ask
- What is the HTML code for ώ?
- Use ώ (decimal) or ώ (hex).
- What is the UTF-8 encoding of U+03CE?
- CF 8E (hex), 2 bytes. In a URL it is %CF%8E.
- How do I write U+03CE in JavaScript or Python?
- JavaScript: \u03CE. Python: \u03CE.
Source
Unicode Character Database 18.0.0 (Unicode License v3); HTML entity names from the WHATWG HTML Standard (CC BY 4.0). The encodings above are computed from the code point and checked against Python's encoders. How the character looks depends on your fonts.
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