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U+03AF · GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA WITH TONOS

Greek Small Letter Iota with Tonos

  • CodepointU+03AF
  • NameGREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA WITH TONOS
  • Decimal943
  • BlockGreek and Coptic (U+0370–U+03FF)
  • Plane0 — Basic Multilingual Plane
  • ScriptGreek
  • CategoryLl — Lowercase Letter
  • Unicode version1.1 (1993)
  • Bidi classL — Left-to-Right
  • Combining class0
  • East Asian widthN — Neutral
  • MirroredNo

About this character

U+03AF (ί) is GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA WITH TONOS, a lowercase letter in the Greek and Coptic block. It belongs to the Greek script. It was added in Unicode 1.1 (1993).

Its uppercase form is U+038A Ί.

It is precomposed. Under NFD it decomposes into U+03B9 ι + U+0301 ◌́, and NFC recombines that sequence into this single codepoint, so both spellings are canonically equivalent and should compare equal after normalization. See the normalization guide.

How to type ί

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Encodings & escapes

UTF-8 encoder →
UTF-8CE AF2 bytes
UTF-1603AF1 code unit
UTF-32000003AF4 bytes
HTML decimalί
HTML hexί
CSS\3AFin content: "…"
JavaScript\u03AF
JSON\u03AF
Python\u03AF
Python\N{GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA WITH TONOS}by name
Java / C#\u03AF
C / C++\u03AFuniversal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{3AF}
Go\u03AF
Ruby\u03AF
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(943)
URL-encoded%CE%AFpercent-encoded UTF-8
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Normalization forms

Normalizer →
NFCunchanged
NFDU+03B9 ι + U+0301 ◌́
NFKCunchanged
NFKDU+03B9 ι + U+0301 ◌́
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Characters built on ί

U+1F77ίGreek Small Letter Iota with Oxia
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Nearby in Greek and Coptic

All in block →
U+03A9ΩGreek Capital Letter Omega U+03AAΪGreek Capital Letter Iota with Dialytika U+03ABΫGreek Capital Letter Upsilon with Dialytika U+03ACάGreek Small Letter Alpha with Tonos U+03ADέGreek Small Letter Epsilon with Tonos U+03AEήGreek Small Letter Eta with Tonos U+03B0ΰGreek Small Letter Upsilon with Dialytika and Tonos U+03B1αGreek Small Letter Alpha U+03B2βGreek Small Letter Beta U+03B3γGreek Small Letter Gamma U+03B4δGreek Small Letter Delta U+03B5εGreek Small Letter Epsilon