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U+03C4 · GREEK SMALL LETTER TAU

Greek Small Letter Tau

CodepointU+03C4
NameGREEK SMALL LETTER TAU
Decimal964
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

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Encodings & escapes

UTF-8 encoder →

UTF-8	`CF 84`	2 bytes
UTF-16	`03C4`	1 code unit
UTF-32	`000003C4`	4 bytes
HTML named	`τ`	named character reference
HTML decimal	`τ`
HTML hex	`τ`
CSS	`\3C4`	in content: "…"
JavaScript	`\u03C4`
JSON	`\u03C4`
Python	`\u03C4`
Python	`\N{GREEK SMALL LETTER TAU}`	by name
Java / C#	`\u03C4`
C / C++	`\u03C4`	universal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP	`\u{3C4}`
Go	`\u03C4`
Ruby	`\u03C4`
Excel / Sheets	`=UNICHAR(964)`
URL-encoded	`%CF%84`	percent-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+0442тCyrillic Small Letter Te U+1D6D5𝛕Mathematical Bold Small Tau U+1D70F𝜏Mathematical Italic Small Tau U+1D749𝝉Mathematical Bold Italic Small Tau U+1D783𝞃Mathematical Sans-Serif Bold Small Tau U+1D7BD𝞽Mathematical Sans-Serif Bold Italic Small Tau U+1D1BᴛLatin Letter Small Capital T U+AB72ꭲCherokee Small Letter I

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Characters built on τ

U+1D6D5𝛕Mathematical Bold Small Tau U+1D70F𝜏Mathematical Italic Small Tau U+1D749𝝉Mathematical Bold Italic Small Tau U+1D783𝞃Mathematical Sans-Serif Bold Small Tau U+1D7BD𝞽Mathematical Sans-Serif Bold Italic Small Tau

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Nearby in Greek and Coptic

All in block →

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