ϟ

Technical information

Symbol	ϟ
Name	Greek small letter koppa
Unicode number	U+03DF
Category	Archaic letters

Description

The Unicode character ϟ, or U+03DF, is known as the "Greek Small Letter Koppa". It belongs to the "Greek and Coptic" block and falls under the "Letter, Lowercase" category. The character visually appears as a stylized lowercase form of the Greek letter Koppa. In ancient Greek, Koppa was used to denote a /k/ sound before a back vowel, but it fell out of use in the classical period. In modern usage, Koppa appears in the numeric system of ancient Greek, where it represents the number 90.

Encoding

HTML Entity	ϟ
HTML Entity (hex)	ϟ
URL Escape Code	%CF%9F
UTF-8 (hex)	0xCF 0x9F
UTF-8 (binary)	11001111:10011111
UTF-16	0x03DF
UTF-32	0x000003DF

Source Code

C, C++, and Java	"\u03DF"
CSS Code	\03DF
JavaScript	"\u03DF"
Perl	\x{03DF}
Python 2	u"\u03DF"
Python 3	\u03DF
Ruby	\u{03DF}

Preview

This Unicode character looks like this ϟ in sentence and in bold like this ϟ and in italic like this ϟ.

CSS Property: font-weight

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HTML Forms and Input

input

disabled input

input-group

select

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Code examples in HTML and CSS

<span>&#991;</span>

span {
    content: "\03DF";
}

The symbol in different fonts

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