ϰ Greek Kappa Symbol

Codes

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

Decomposition

GREEK KAPPA SYMBOL has a compatibility decomposition (compat) to the sequence below. NFKC and NFKD normalisation replace it with that sequence, which can change how text looks, so use them for search, not for storage.

• κ U+03BA Greek Small Letter Kappa

Upper and lower case

• Κ U+039A Greek Capital Letter Kappa — Uppercase

Nearby in Greek and Coptic

• 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
• ϯ U+03EF Coptic Small Letter Dei
• 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
• ϸ U+03F8 Greek Small Letter Sho

All 135 characters: Greek and Coptic.

Official reference

• Unicode code chart: Greek and Coptic (PDF, unicode.org)

Questions people ask

What is the HTML code for ϰ?

Use the named entity ϰ, or ϰ (decimal) or ϰ (hex).

What is the UTF-8 encoding of U+03F0?

CF B0 (hex), 2 bytes. In a URL it is %CF%B0.

How do I write U+03F0 in JavaScript or Python?

JavaScript: \u03F0. Python: \u03F0.

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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