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U+03F0 · GREEK KAPPA SYMBOL

Greek Kappa Symbol

  • CodepointU+03F0
  • NameGREEK KAPPA SYMBOL
  • Decimal1008
  • 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+03F0 (ϰ) is GREEK KAPPA 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+039A Κ.

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

How to type ϰ

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Encodings & escapes

UTF-8 encoder →
UTF-8CF B02 bytes
UTF-1603F01 code unit
UTF-32000003F04 bytes
HTML named&kappav;named character reference
HTML named&varkappa;named character reference
HTML decimal&#1008;
HTML hex&#x3F0;
CSS\3F0in content: "…"
JavaScript\u03F0
JSON\u03F0
Python\u03F0
Python\N{GREEK KAPPA SYMBOL}by name
Java / C#\u03F0
C / C++\u03F0universal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{3F0}
Go\u03F0
Ruby\u03F0
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(1008)
URL-encoded%CF%B0percent-encoded UTF-8
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Normalization forms

Normalizer →
NFCunchanged
NFDunchanged
NFKCU+03BA κ
NFKDU+03BA κ
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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+0138ĸLatin Small Letter Kra U+03BAκGreek Small Letter Kappa U+043AкCyrillic Small Letter Ka U+1D6CB𝛋Mathematical Bold Small Kappa U+1D6DE𝛞Mathematical Bold Kappa Symbol U+1D705𝜅Mathematical Italic Small Kappa U+1D718𝜘Mathematical Italic Kappa Symbol U+1D73F𝜿Mathematical Bold Italic Small Kappa U+1D752𝝒Mathematical Bold Italic Kappa Symbol U+1D779𝝹Mathematical Sans-Serif Bold Small Kappa U+1D78C𝞌Mathematical Sans-Serif Bold Kappa Symbol U+1D7B3𝞳Mathematical Sans-Serif Bold Italic Small Kappa U+1D7C6𝟆Mathematical Sans-Serif Bold Italic Kappa Symbol U+1D0BᴋLatin Letter Small Capital K U+2C95ⲕCoptic Small Letter Kapa U+ABB6ꮶCherokee Small Letter Tso
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Characters built on ϰ

U+1D6DE𝛞Mathematical Bold Kappa Symbol U+1D718𝜘Mathematical Italic Kappa Symbol U+1D752𝝒Mathematical Bold Italic Kappa Symbol U+1D78C𝞌Mathematical Sans-Serif Bold Kappa Symbol U+1D7C6𝟆Mathematical Sans-Serif Bold Italic Kappa Symbol
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Nearby in Greek and Coptic

All in block →
U+03EAϪCoptic Capital Letter Gangia U+03EBϫCoptic Small Letter Gangia U+03ECϬCoptic Capital Letter Shima U+03EDϭCoptic Small Letter Shima U+03EEϮCoptic Capital Letter Dei U+03EFϯCoptic Small Letter Dei U+03F1ϱGreek Rho Symbol U+03F2ϲGreek Lunate Sigma Symbol U+03F3ϳGreek Letter Yot U+03F4ϴGreek Capital Theta Symbol U+03F5ϵGreek Lunate Epsilon Symbol U+03F6϶Greek Reversed Lunate Epsilon Symbol