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Technical information

Symbol	ί
Name	Greek small letter iota with tonos
Unicode number	U+03AF
Category	Greek Punctuation

Description

The Unicode character ί, or U+03AF, is known as the "Greek Small Letter Iota with Tonos". It belongs to the "Greek and Coptic" block and falls under the "Letter, Lowercase" category in the Unicode standard. This character is the lowercase version of the Greek letter iota, adorned with a tonos (acute accent) above it. The tonos indicates a particular stress or intonation in pronunciation. In the modern Greek language, the tonos serves to mark the stressed syllable of a word. The letter ί is used in words that have the stress on the iota. The specific visual representation and pronunciation of this character can vary depending on the language and context in which it's used. The appearance can also slightly differ based on the font and typography used.

Encoding

HTML Entity	ί
HTML Entity (hex)	ί
URL Escape Code	%CE%AF
UTF-8 (hex)	0xCE 0xAF
UTF-8 (binary)	11001110:10101111
UTF-16	0x03AF
UTF-32	0x000003AF

Source Code

C, C++, and Java	"\u03AF"
CSS Code	\03AF
JavaScript	"\u03AF"
Perl	\x{03AF}
Python 2	u"\u03AF"
Python 3	\u03AF
Ruby	\u{03AF}

Preview

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

CSS Property: font-weight

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HTML Forms and Input

input

disabled input

input-group

select

button

Code examples in HTML and CSS

<span>&#943;</span>

span {
    content: "\03AF";
}

The symbol in different fonts

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Apple Color Emoji

Arial

BlinkMacSystemFont

Courier New

Georgia

Droid Sans

Helvetica

Noto Sans

Oxygen

Roboto

"Segoe UI"

sans-serif

Segoe UI Emoji

Segoe UI Symbol

system-ui

Times New Roman

Ubuntu

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