Ϲ

Greek Capital Lunate Sigma Symbol

U+03F9
BMP Unicode 4.0
Character Ϲ
Decimal Ϲ
Hex Ϲ

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+03F9
Decimal
1017
Plane
BMP — Basic Multilingual Plane
Category
Uppercase Letter (Lu)
Script
Greek
Bidi class
L Left-to-Right
East Asian Width
N Narrow
Properties
Alphabetic ID Start ID Continue
Lowercase
ϲ U+03F2

Looks Like (Confusables)

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

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 Capital Lunate Sigma Symbol.

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Format Value
HTML Decimal
Ϲ
HTML Hex
Ϲ
UTF-8 Hex Bytes
CF B9
UTF-16 Hex Bytes
03 F9
UTF-32 Hex
000003F9
CSS Escape
\3F9
JavaScript Escape
\u03F9
Python Escape
\u03F9
URL Encoded
%CF%B9
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Normalization Forms

Unicode defines four normalization forms that affect how characters with diacritics, compatibility variants, and combining marks are represented. This character has a non-trivial normalization — the forms below differ from its codepoint. Mismatched normalization is the most common cause of failed string comparisons across systems.

NFC = Canonical Decomposition then Canonical Composition (preferred for storage) · NFD = Canonical Decomposition · NFKC/NFKD = Compatibility forms (fold variants like fi → fi)

Decomposition

This character can be broken down into a sequence of simpler Unicode codepoints. This is a compatibility decomposition — the character is a stylistic or semantic variant of its components, not an exact equivalent.