κ

Technical information

Symbol	κ
Name	Greek small letter kappa
Unicode number	U+03BA
Category	Greek small letter normal

Description

The Unicode character κ, or U+03BA, is known as the "Greek Small Letter Kappa". It belongs to the "Greek and Coptic" block and falls under the "Letter, Lowercase" category in the Unicode standard. This character is a lower case version of the Greek letter Kappa and is used in many fields, including mathematics, physics, and engineering to denote various constants and variables. The specific appearance and usage of this character can depend on the system and application it's being used in.

Encoding

HTML Entity	κ
HTML Entity (hex)	κ
HTML Entity (named)	κ
URL Escape Code	%CE%BA
UTF-8 (hex)	0xCE 0xBA
UTF-8 (binary)	11001110:10111010
UTF-16	0x03BA
UTF-32	0x000003BA

Source Code

C, C++, and Java	"\u03BA"
CSS Code	\03BA
JavaScript	"\u03BA"
Perl	\x{03BA}
Python 2	u"\u03BA"
Python 3	\u03BA
Ruby	\u{03BA}

Preview

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

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>&#954;</span>

span {
    content: "\03BA";
}

The symbol in different fonts

-apple-system

Apple Color Emoji

Arial

BlinkMacSystemFont

Courier New

Georgia

Droid Sans

Helvetica

Noto Sans

Oxygen

Roboto

"Segoe UI"

sans-serif

Segoe UI Emoji

Segoe UI Symbol

system-ui

Times New Roman

Ubuntu

Verdana

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