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U+03D6 · GREEK PI SYMBOL

Greek Pi Symbol

  • CodepointU+03D6
  • NameGREEK PI SYMBOL
  • Decimal982
  • 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+03D6 (ϖ) is GREEK PI SYMBOL, 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+03A0 Π.

It is a compatibility variant of U+03C0 π (compatibility decomposition <compat>). NFC and NFD leave it alone, but NFKC and NFKD replace it with U+03C0 π. Search engines, identifier checks and username systems that apply NFKC will treat the two as the same text.

How to type ϖ

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Encodings & escapes

UTF-8 encoder →
UTF-8CF 962 bytes
UTF-1603D61 code unit
UTF-32000003D64 bytes
HTML named&piv;named character reference
HTML named&varpi;named character reference
HTML decimal&#982;
HTML hex&#x3D6;
CSS\3D6in content: "…"
JavaScript\u03D6
JSON\u03D6
Python\u03D6
Python\N{GREEK PI SYMBOL}by name
Java / C#\u03D6
C / C++\u03D6universal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{3D6}
Go\u03D6
Ruby\u03D6
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(982)
URL-encoded%CF%96percent-encoded UTF-8
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Normalization forms

Normalizer →
NFCunchanged
NFDunchanged
NFKCU+03C0 π
NFKDU+03C0 π
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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+03C0πGreek Small Letter Pi U+043FпCyrillic Small Letter Pe U+213CℼDouble-Struck Small Pi U+1D6D1𝛑Mathematical Bold Small Pi U+1D6E1𝛡Mathematical Bold Pi Symbol U+1D70B𝜋Mathematical Italic Small Pi U+1D71B𝜛Mathematical Italic Pi Symbol U+1D745𝝅Mathematical Bold Italic Small Pi U+1D755𝝕Mathematical Bold Italic Pi Symbol U+1D77F𝝿Mathematical Sans-Serif Bold Small Pi U+1D78F𝞏Mathematical Sans-Serif Bold Pi Symbol U+1D7B9𝞹Mathematical Sans-Serif Bold Italic Small Pi U+1D7C9𝟉Mathematical Sans-Serif Bold Italic Pi Symbol U+1D28ᴨGreek Letter Small Capital Pi
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Characters built on ϖ

U+1D6E1𝛡Mathematical Bold Pi Symbol U+1D71B𝜛Mathematical Italic Pi Symbol U+1D755𝝕Mathematical Bold Italic Pi Symbol U+1D78F𝞏Mathematical Sans-Serif Bold Pi Symbol U+1D7C9𝟉Mathematical Sans-Serif Bold Italic Pi Symbol
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Nearby in Greek and Coptic

All in block →
U+03D0ϐGreek Beta Symbol U+03D1ϑGreek Theta Symbol U+03D2ϒGreek Upsilon with Hook Symbol U+03D3ϓGreek Upsilon with Acute and Hook Symbol U+03D4ϔGreek Upsilon with Diaeresis and Hook Symbol U+03D5ϕGreek Phi Symbol U+03D7ϗGreek Kai Symbol U+03D8ϘGreek Letter Archaic Koppa U+03D9ϙGreek Small Letter Archaic Koppa U+03DAϚGreek Letter Stigma U+03DBϛGreek Small Letter Stigma U+03DCϜGreek Letter Digamma