What is the HTML entity for Greek Small Letter Stigma?

The HTML entity for Greek Small Letter Stigma is ϛ (decimal: ϛ, hex: ϛ).

What is the Unicode codepoint for Greek Small Letter Stigma?

Greek Small Letter Stigma has the Unicode codepoint U+03DB (decimal: 987).

What is the UTF-8 encoding of Greek Small Letter Stigma?

The UTF-8 encoding of Greek Small Letter Stigma is CF 9B.

How do I use Greek Small Letter Stigma in JavaScript?

In JavaScript, use the escape sequence \u03DB or paste the character directly in a string.

What is the CSS escape for Greek Small Letter Stigma?

The CSS escape for Greek Small Letter Stigma is \3DB. Use it in CSS content properties or selectors.

How do I write Greek Small Letter Stigma in Python?

In Python, use the escape sequence \u03DB inside a string literal.

What is the URL encoding for Greek Small Letter Stigma?

The percent-encoded (URL encoded) form of Greek Small Letter Stigma is %CF%9B.

What Unicode block does Greek Small Letter Stigma belong to?

Greek Small Letter Stigma belongs to the Greek and Coptic Unicode block.

Greek Small Letter Stigma

U+03DB

BMP Unicode 3.0

Character ϛ

Decimal ϛ

Hex ϛ

Classification

Unicode properties assigned to this character by the Unicode Consortium. The codepoint is its unique numeric identifier. Category, block, and script determine how text systems render and process it.

Codepoint: U+03DB
Decimal: 987
Plane: BMP — Basic Multilingual Plane
Category: Lowercase Letter (Ll)
Block: Greek and Coptic
Script: Greek
Bidi class: L Left-to-Right
East Asian Width: N Narrow
Properties: Alphabetic ID Start ID Continue
Uppercase: Ϛ U+03DA

Looks Like (Confusables)

Characters that are visually similar — relevant for security, font design, and homoglyph detection.

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Encodings & Escape Sequences

Every Unicode character can be represented in multiple ways depending on context. HTML entities let you embed it safely in web pages. UTF-8 bytes are what gets stored on disk and sent over the network. Escape sequences let you reference it in source code without pasting the raw glyph. All formats below refer to the same character — Greek Small Letter Stigma.

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Format	Value
HTML Decimal	`ϛ` Decimal numeric character reference (&#decimal;).
HTML Hex	`ϛ` Hexadecimal numeric character reference (&#xHex;).
UTF-8 Hex Bytes	`CF 9B` UTF-8 encoding as hex byte values. Most common on the web.
UTF-16 Hex Bytes	`03 DB` Used internally by JavaScript, Java, and Windows.
UTF-32 Hex	`000003DB` Fixed-width: one codepoint = 4 bytes.
CSS Escape	`\3DB` Use in CSS content property: content: "\XXXX"
JavaScript Escape	`\u03DB` Use in JS strings: "\uXXXX" or template literals.
Python Escape	`\u03DB` Use in Python strings: "\uXXXX" or "\UXXXXXXXX".
URL Encoded	`%CF%9B` Percent-encoded for use in URLs.

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