ϯ is the Unicode character COPTIC SMALL LETTER DEI, code point U+03EF (decimal 1007) in the Greek and Coptic block, added in Unicode 1.1. In HTML write ϯ, and in UTF-8 it is the 2 bytes CF AF.
Codes
| Where | How to write it |
|---|---|
| Code point | U+03EF |
| Decimal | 1007 |
| UTF-8 bytes | CF AF |
| UTF-16 (big-endian) | 03EF |
| UTF-32 | 000003EF |
| HTML decimal | ϯ |
| HTML hex | ϯ |
| CSS | \3EF |
| JavaScript | \u03EF |
| JSON | \u03EF |
| Python | \u03EF |
| Python by name | \N{COPTIC SMALL LETTER DEI} |
| Java, C# | \u03EF |
| Rust, Swift | \u{3EF} |
| Go, C, C++ | \u03EF |
| URL (percent-encoded) | %CF%AF |
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 | COPTIC SMALL LETTER DEI |
| Code point | U+03EF (decimal 1007) |
| Block | Greek and Coptic (U+0370–U+03FF) |
| General category | Ll: Lowercase letter |
| Script | Coptic |
| Bidirectional class | L: Left-to-right |
| Mirrored in right-to-left text | No |
| First in Unicode version | 1.1 |
Upper and lower case
- Ϯ U+03EE Coptic Capital Letter Dei — Uppercase
Nearby in Greek and Coptic
- ϧ U+03E7 Coptic Small Letter Khei
- Ϩ U+03E8 Coptic Capital Letter Hori
- ϩ U+03E9 Coptic Small Letter Hori
- Ϫ U+03EA Coptic Capital Letter Gangia
- ϫ U+03EB Coptic Small Letter Gangia
- Ϭ U+03EC Coptic Capital Letter Shima
- ϭ U+03ED Coptic Small Letter Shima
- Ϯ U+03EE Coptic Capital Letter Dei
- ϰ U+03F0 Greek Kappa Symbol
- ϱ U+03F1 Greek Rho Symbol
- ϲ U+03F2 Greek Lunate Sigma Symbol
- ϳ U+03F3 Greek Letter Yot
- ϴ U+03F4 Greek Capital Theta Symbol
- ϵ U+03F5 Greek Lunate Epsilon Symbol
- ϶ U+03F6 Greek Reversed Lunate Epsilon Symbol
- Ϸ U+03F7 Greek Capital Letter Sho
All 135 characters: Greek and Coptic.
Official reference
Questions people ask
- What is the HTML code for ϯ?
- Use ϯ (decimal) or ϯ (hex).
- What is the UTF-8 encoding of U+03EF?
- CF AF (hex), 2 bytes. In a URL it is %CF%AF.
- How do I write U+03EF in JavaScript or Python?
- JavaScript: \u03EF. Python: \u03EF.
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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