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Technical information

Symbol	χ
Name	Greek small letter chi
Unicode number	U+03C7
Category	Greek small letter normal

Description

The Unicode character χ, or U+03C7, is known as the "Greek Small Letter Chi". It belongs to the "Greek and Coptic" block and falls under the "Letter, Lowercase" category in the Unicode standard. The chi character is the 22nd letter of the Greek alphabet. In the system of Greek numerals, it has a value of 600. In Greek, the letter is pronounced "khi". The character is used in various scientific fields, such as physics (Chi-squared tests in statistics, chi mesons in particle physics) and engineering (chi-waves in electromagnetics).

Encoding

HTML Entity	χ
HTML Entity (hex)	χ
HTML Entity (named)	χ
URL Escape Code	%CF%87
UTF-8 (hex)	0xCF 0x87
UTF-8 (binary)	11001111:10000111
UTF-16	0x03C7
UTF-32	0x000003C7

Source Code

C, C++, and Java	"\u03C7"
CSS Code	\03C7
JavaScript	"\u03C7"
Perl	\x{03C7}
Python 2	u"\u03C7"
Python 3	\u03C7
Ruby	\u{03C7}

Preview

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

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HTML Forms and Input

input

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select

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Code examples in HTML and CSS

<span>&#967;</span>

span {
    content: "\03C7";
}

The symbol in different fonts

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