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U+03F2 · GREEK LUNATE SIGMA SYMBOL

Greek Lunate Sigma Symbol

  • CodepointU+03F2
  • NameGREEK LUNATE SIGMA SYMBOL
  • Decimal1010
  • 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+03F2 (ϲ) is GREEK LUNATE SIGMA 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+03F9 Ϲ.

It is a compatibility variant of U+03C2 ς (compatibility decomposition <compat>). NFC and NFD leave it alone, but NFKC and NFKD replace it with U+03C2 ς. Search engines, identifier checks and username systems that apply NFKC will treat the two as the same text.

How to type ϲ

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Encodings & escapes

UTF-8 encoder →
UTF-8CF B22 bytes
UTF-1603F21 code unit
UTF-32000003F24 bytes
HTML decimal&#1010;
HTML hex&#x3F2;
CSS\3F2in content: "…"
JavaScript\u03F2
JSON\u03F2
Python\u03F2
Python\N{GREEK LUNATE SIGMA SYMBOL}by name
Java / C#\u03F2
C / C++\u03F2universal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{3F2}
Go\u03F2
Ruby\u03F2
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(1010)
URL-encoded%CF%B2percent-encoded UTF-8
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Normalization forms

Normalizer →
NFCunchanged
NFDunchanged
NFKCU+03C2 ς
NFKDU+03C2 ς
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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.

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Nearby in Greek and Coptic

All in block →
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+03F1ϱGreek Rho 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 U+03F8ϸGreek Small Letter Sho