ω

Technical information

Symbol	ω
Name	Greek small letter omega
Unicode number	U+03C9
Category	Greek small letter normal

Description

The Unicode character ω, or U+03C9, is known as the "Greek Small Letter Omega". It falls under the "Greek and Coptic" block and the "Letter, Lowercase" category in the Unicode standard. Omega is the 24th and last letter of the Greek alphabet. In the Greek numeric system, it has a value of 800. It is pronounced as "omega" in English. This character is often used in physics to represent angular frequency or angular velocity, and in mathematics, it's frequently used to represent the set of natural numbers, among other things.

Encoding

HTML Entity	ω
HTML Entity (hex)	ω
HTML Entity (named)	ω
URL Escape Code	%CF%89
UTF-8 (hex)	0xCF 0x89
UTF-8 (binary)	11001111:10001001
UTF-16	0x03C9
UTF-32	0x000003C9

Source Code

C, C++, and Java	"\u03C9"
CSS Code	\03C9
JavaScript	"\u03C9"
Perl	\x{03C9}
Python 2	u"\u03C9"
Python 3	\u03C9
Ruby	\u{03C9}

Preview

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

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>&#969;</span>

span {
    content: "\03C9";
}

The symbol in different fonts

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Courier New

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"Segoe UI"

sans-serif

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Segoe UI Symbol

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Ubuntu

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