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U+03F9 · GREEK CAPITAL LUNATE SIGMA SYMBOL

Greek Capital Lunate Sigma Symbol

  • CodepointU+03F9
  • NameGREEK CAPITAL LUNATE SIGMA SYMBOL
  • Decimal1017
  • BlockGreek and Coptic (U+0370–U+03FF)
  • Plane0 — Basic Multilingual Plane
  • ScriptGreek
  • CategoryLu — Uppercase Letter
  • Unicode version4.0 (2003)
  • Bidi classL — Left-to-Right
  • Combining class0
  • East Asian widthN — Neutral
  • MirroredNo

About this character

U+03F9 (Ϲ) is GREEK CAPITAL LUNATE SIGMA SYMBOL, an uppercase letter in the Greek and Coptic block. It belongs to the Greek script. It was added in Unicode 4.0 (2003).

Its lowercase form is U+03F2 ϲ.

It is a compatibility variant of U+03A3 Σ (compatibility decomposition <compat>). NFC and NFD leave it alone, but NFKC and NFKD replace it with U+03A3 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 B92 bytes
UTF-1603F91 code unit
UTF-32000003F94 bytes
HTML decimal&#1017;
HTML hex&#x3F9;
CSS\3F9in content: "…"
JavaScript\u03F9
JSON\u03F9
Python\u03F9
Python\N{GREEK CAPITAL LUNATE SIGMA SYMBOL}by name
Java / C#\u03F9
C / C++\u03F9universal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{3F9}
Go\u03F9
Ruby\u03F9
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(1017)
URL-encoded%CF%B9percent-encoded UTF-8
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Normalization forms

Normalizer →
NFCunchanged
NFDunchanged
NFKCU+03A3 Σ
NFKDU+03A3 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.

U+0043CLatin Capital Letter C U+0421СCyrillic Capital Letter Es U+2102ℂDouble-Struck Capital C U+212DℭBlack-Letter Capital C U+216DⅭRoman Numeral One Hundred U+FF23ＣFullwidth Latin Capital Letter C U+1D402𝐂Mathematical Bold Capital C U+1D436𝐶Mathematical Italic Capital C U+1D46A𝑪Mathematical Bold Italic Capital C U+1D49E𝒞Mathematical Script Capital C U+1D4D2𝓒Mathematical Bold Script Capital C U+1D56E𝕮Mathematical Bold Fraktur Capital C U+1D5A2𝖢Mathematical Sans-Serif Capital C U+1D5D6𝗖Mathematical Sans-Serif Bold Capital C U+1D60A𝘊Mathematical Sans-Serif Italic Capital C U+1D63E𝘾Mathematical Sans-Serif Bold Italic Capital C
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Nearby in Greek and Coptic

All in block →
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 U+03FAϺGreek Capital Letter San U+03FBϻGreek Small Letter San U+03FCϼGreek Rho with Stroke Symbol U+03FDϽGreek Capital Reversed Lunate Sigma Symbol U+03FEϾGreek Capital Dotted Lunate Sigma Symbol U+03FFϿGreek Capital Reversed Dotted Lunate Sigma Symbol