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U+03BE · GREEK SMALL LETTER XI

Greek Small Letter Xi

  • CodepointU+03BE
  • NameGREEK SMALL LETTER XI
  • Decimal958
  • 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 widthA — Ambiguous
  • MirroredNo

About this character

U+03BE (ξ) is GREEK SMALL LETTER XI, 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+039E Ξ.

How to type ξ

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Encodings & escapes

UTF-8 encoder →
UTF-8CE BE2 bytes
UTF-1603BE1 code unit
UTF-32000003BE4 bytes
HTML namedξnamed character reference
HTML decimalξ
HTML hexξ
CSS\3BEin content: "…"
JavaScript\u03BE
JSON\u03BE
Python\u03BE
Python\N{GREEK SMALL LETTER XI}by name
Java / C#\u03BE
C / C++\u03BEuniversal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{3BE}
Go\u03BE
Ruby\u03BE
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(958)
URL-encoded%CE%BEpercent-encoded UTF-8
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Looks similar

Characters that Unicode’s security data (UTS #39 confusables) lists as visually confusable with this one. Useful for spotting lookalike spoofing in URLs and usernames.

U+1D6CF𝛏Mathematical Bold Small Xi U+1D709𝜉Mathematical Italic Small Xi U+1D743𝝃Mathematical Bold Italic Small Xi U+1D77D𝝽Mathematical Sans-Serif Bold Small Xi U+1D7B7𝞷Mathematical Sans-Serif Bold Italic Small Xi
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Characters built on ξ

U+1D6CF𝛏Mathematical Bold Small Xi U+1D709𝜉Mathematical Italic Small Xi U+1D743𝝃Mathematical Bold Italic Small Xi U+1D77D𝝽Mathematical Sans-Serif Bold Small Xi U+1D7B7𝞷Mathematical Sans-Serif Bold Italic Small Xi
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Nearby in Greek and Coptic

All in block →
U+03B8θGreek Small Letter Theta U+03B9ιGreek Small Letter Iota U+03BAκGreek Small Letter Kappa U+03BBλGreek Small Letter Lamda U+03BCμGreek Small Letter Mu U+03BDνGreek Small Letter Nu U+03BFοGreek Small Letter Omicron U+03C0πGreek Small Letter Pi U+03C1ρGreek Small Letter Rho U+03C2ςGreek Small Letter Final Sigma U+03C3σGreek Small Letter Sigma U+03C4τGreek Small Letter Tau