U+03C0 "π" Greek Small Letter Pi Unicode Character

U+03C0 "π" Greek Small Letter Pi is a standard encoded representation of the sixteenth letter of the Greek alphabet, which is widely used in mathematics, science, and engineering to denote the fundamental constant representing the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter, approximately equal to 3.14159. In addition to this famous mathematical constant, the lowercase pi symbol appears in fields such as statistics to represent population parameters, in physics for describing oscillatory motion or product notation, and in linguistics as a phonetic symbol. Its inclusion in the Unicode standard ensures consistent digital display and text processing across different platforms and fonts.

General Properties

Code Point	U+03C0
Version Added	1.1
Name	Greek Small Letter Pi
Block	Greek and Coptic
General Category	Lowercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	π
HTML Hex Encoding	π
UTF-8 Encoding	0xCF 0x80
UTF-16 Encoding	0x03C0
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000003C0
C/C++/Java Escape	\u03c0

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	"Π" U+03A0 Greek Capital Letter Pi
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"Π" U+03A0 Greek Capital Letter Pi
Uppercase Code Point	"Π" U+03A0 Greek Capital Letter Pi
Titlecase Code Point	"Π" U+03A0 Greek Capital Letter Pi
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