U+039D "Ν" Greek Capital Letter Nu Unicode Character

U+039D "Ν" Greek Capital Letter Nu is the uppercase version of the fourteenth letter in the Greek alphabet, corresponding to the sound of the English letter 'N'. It is a fundamental character used in modern and ancient Greek writing, and it also holds frequent symbolic roles in mathematics, physics, and engineering, where it often represents frequency, kinematic viscosity, or the number of particles in a substance. In digital text, it is encoded as a distinct character separate from the Latin letter 'N' to preserve linguistic and typographic accuracy.

General Properties

Code Point	U+039D
Version Added	1.1
Name	Greek Capital Letter Nu
Block	Greek and Coptic
General Category	Uppercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	Ν
HTML Hex Encoding	Ν
UTF-8 Encoding	0xCE 0x9D
UTF-16 Encoding	0x039D
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000039D
C/C++/Java Escape	\u039d

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check	Yes
NFD Quick Check	Yes
NFKC Quick Check	Yes
NFKD Quick Check	Yes
Numeric Type	None
Numeric Value	NaN
Line Break	Alphabetic
East Asian Width	Ambiguous
Uppercase	Yes
Simple Lowercase Code Point	"ν" U+03BD Greek Small Letter Nu
Lowercase Code Point	"ν" U+03BD Greek Small Letter Nu
Simple Case Folding	"ν" U+03BD Greek Small Letter Nu
Case Folding	"ν" U+03BD Greek Small Letter Nu
Cased	Yes
Changes When Casefolded	Yes
Changes When Casemapped	Yes
Changes When Lowercased	Yes
Changes When NFKC Casefolded	Yes
NFKC Casefold	"ν" U+03BD Greek Small Letter Nu
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ν" U+03BD Greek Small Letter Nu
Script	Greek
Script Extensions	Greek
Indic Syllabic Category	Other
ID Start	Yes
XID Start	Yes
ID Continue	Yes
XID Continue	Yes
Alphabetic	Yes
Vertical Orientation	Rotated
Grapheme Base	Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break	Other
Word Break	Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break	Upper