U+03BD "ν" Greek Small Letter Nu Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+03BD "ν" Greek Small Letter Nu is the twelfth letter of the Greek alphabet, pronounced like the English "n" in words such as "new." In modern Greek it represents the voiced alveolar nasal sound, while in mathematics and science it is widely used as a symbol for frequency, neutrinos, kinematic viscosity, and stoichiometric coefficients. The letter is derived from the Phoenician letter "nun" and is the ancestor of the Latin letters N and n as well as the Cyrillic letter Н.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+03BD |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Greek Small Letter Nu |
| Block | Greek and Coptic |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ν |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ν |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xCE 0xBD |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x03BD |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000003BD |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u03bd |
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 |
| Lowercase | Yes |
| Simple Uppercase Code Point | "Ν" U+039D Greek Capital Letter Nu |
| Simple Titlecase Code Point | "Ν" U+039D Greek Capital Letter Nu |
| Uppercase Code Point | "Ν" U+039D Greek Capital Letter Nu |
| Titlecase Code Point | "Ν" U+039D Greek Capital Letter Nu |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Titlecased | Yes |
| Changes When Uppercased | Yes |
| 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 | Lower |