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U+03F1 · GREEK RHO SYMBOL

Greek Rho Symbol

  • CodepointU+03F1
  • NameGREEK RHO SYMBOL
  • Decimal1009
  • 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+03F1 (ϱ) is GREEK RHO 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+03A1 Ρ.

It is a compatibility variant of U+03C1 ρ (compatibility decomposition <compat>). NFC and NFD leave it alone, but NFKC and NFKD replace it with U+03C1 ρ. Search engines, identifier checks and username systems that apply NFKC will treat the two as the same text.

How to type ϱ

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Encodings & escapes

UTF-8 encoder →
UTF-8CF B12 bytes
UTF-1603F11 code unit
UTF-32000003F14 bytes
HTML named&rhov;named character reference
HTML named&varrho;named character reference
HTML decimal&#1009;
HTML hex&#x3F1;
CSS\3F1in content: "…"
JavaScript\u03F1
JSON\u03F1
Python\u03F1
Python\N{GREEK RHO SYMBOL}by name
Java / C#\u03F1
C / C++\u03F1universal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{3F1}
Go\u03F1
Ruby\u03F1
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(1009)
URL-encoded%CF%B1percent-encoded UTF-8
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Normalization forms

Normalizer →
NFCunchanged
NFDunchanged
NFKCU+03C1 ρ
NFKDU+03C1 ρ
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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+0070pLatin Small Letter P U+03C1ρGreek Small Letter Rho U+0440рCyrillic Small Letter Er U+2374⍴APL Functional Symbol Rho U+FF50ｐFullwidth Latin Small Letter P U+1D429𝐩Mathematical Bold Small P U+1D45D𝑝Mathematical Italic Small P U+1D491𝒑Mathematical Bold Italic Small P U+1D4C5𝓅Mathematical Script Small P U+1D4F9𝓹Mathematical Bold Script Small P U+1D52D𝔭Mathematical Fraktur Small P U+1D561𝕡Mathematical Double-Struck Small P U+1D595𝖕Mathematical Bold Fraktur Small P U+1D5C9𝗉Mathematical Sans-Serif Small P U+1D5FD𝗽Mathematical Sans-Serif Bold Small P U+1D631𝘱Mathematical Sans-Serif Italic Small P
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Characters built on ϱ

U+1D6E0𝛠Mathematical Bold Rho Symbol U+1D71A𝜚Mathematical Italic Rho Symbol U+1D754𝝔Mathematical Bold Italic Rho Symbol U+1D78E𝞎Mathematical Sans-Serif Bold Rho Symbol U+1D7C8𝟈Mathematical Sans-Serif Bold Italic Rho Symbol
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Nearby in Greek and Coptic

All in block →
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+03F0ϰGreek Kappa 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 U+03F7ϷGreek Capital Letter Sho