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U+03B9 CHARACTER

GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA

Quick Facts

Unicode Name GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA
Code Point U+03B9
Decimal Value 953
General Category Lowercase Letter (Ll) →
Unicode Block Greek and Coptic →
Script Greek →
Unicode Version Unicode 1.1 →
Unicode Plane Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP)

Byte Encodings

UTF-8 2 bytes CE B9
UTF-16 Code Unit 03B9
UTF-32 4 bytes 000003B9
UTF-16BE / LE Byte Order
BE: 03 B9 LE: B9 03
UTF-32BE / LE Byte Order
BE: 00 00 03 B9 LE: B9 03 00 00

Developer Code Escapes

HTML Decimal ι
HTML Hexadecimal ι
HTML Named Entity ι
CSS Escape \0003B9
JavaScript (ES6) \u03B9
JavaScript (UTF-16) \u03B9
JSON Escape \u03B9
Python \u03B9
PHP "\u{3B9}"
Java "\u03B9"
C / C++ "\u03B9"
Rust '\u{3b9}'
URL Percent-Encoded %CE%B9

Normalization & Decomposition

Combining Class 0Not Reordered (Spacing)
Decomposition None (Canonical / Precomposed Base)
NFC / NFD Forms Stable under all Unicode normalization forms (NFC, NFD, NFKC, NFKD).

Bidirectional Properties

Bidi Class LLeft-to-Right
Bidi Mirrored No

Case Mapping & Numeric Data

Uppercase Mapping Ι U+0399

Font Specimen & Rendering

Visual rendering of U+03B9 across standard system font stacks. Rendering fidelity depends on installed OS font glyph coverage.

Sans-Serif System UI, Inter, Arial
ι
Context: A ι Z 123
Serif Georgia, Times, Cambria
ι
Context: A ι Z 123
Monospace Consolas, SF Mono, Courier
ι
Context: A ι Z 123
System Default Operating System Glyph Fallback
ι
Context: A ι Z 123

Names & Aliases

Official Name GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA

The normative, immutable character identifier in the Unicode Character Database.

Identifier U+03B9

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