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Technical information

Symbolί
NameGreek small letter iota with tonos
Unicode numberU+03AF
CategoryGreek Punctuation
DescriptionThe 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 Entityί
HTML Entity (hex)ί
URL Escape Code%CE%AF
UTF-8 (hex)0xCE 0xAF
UTF-8 (binary)11001110:10101111
UTF-160x03AF
UTF-320x000003AF

Source Code

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

Font size:

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12px
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16px
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20px
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28px
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36px
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48px
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72px

CSS Property: font-weight

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HTML Forms and Input

input
disabled input
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input-group
select
button
button

Code examples in HTML and CSS

<span>&#943;</span>

            
span {
    content: "\03AF";
}

The symbol in different fonts

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-apple-system
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Apple Color Emoji
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Arial
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BlinkMacSystemFont
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Courier New
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Georgia
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Droid Sans
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Helvetica
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Noto Sans
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Oxygen
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Roboto
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"Segoe UI"
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sans-serif
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Segoe UI Emoji
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Segoe UI Symbol
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system-ui
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Times New Roman
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Ubuntu
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Verdana

References