U+03D2 "ϒ" Greek Upsilon with Hook Symbol Unicode Character

U+03D2 "ϒ" Greek Upsilon with Hook Symbol is a distinctive variant of the Greek letter Upsilon, notable for its classical cursive form that features a small hook or tail curving from the bottom right of the main stroke. Historically, this shape was used in ancient Greek inscriptions and early manuscripts to represent the vowel sound /u/ or /y/, and it is still employed today in modern Greek typography for decorative or specialized linguistic purposes. The symbol is also frequently encountered in mathematics and science, where it serves as a notation for various concepts such as the upsilon meson or as a variable in formal logic and set theory.

General Properties

Code Point	U+03D2
Version Added	1.1
Name	Greek Upsilon with Hook Symbol
Unicode 1.0 Name	Greek Capital Letter Upsilon Hook
Block	Greek and Coptic
General Category	Uppercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right
Decomposition Type	Compat
Decomposition Mapping	"Υ" U+03A5 Greek Capital Letter Upsilon

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ϒ
HTML Hex Encoding	ϒ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xCF 0x92
UTF-16 Encoding	0x03D2
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000003D2
C/C++/Java Escape	\u03d2

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check	Yes
NFD Quick Check	Yes
Numeric Type	None
Numeric Value	NaN
Line Break	Alphabetic
Uppercase	Yes
Cased	Yes
Changes When NFKC Casefolded	Yes
NFKC Casefold	"υ" U+03C5 Greek Small Letter Upsilon
NFKC Simple Casefold	"υ" U+03C5 Greek Small Letter Upsilon
Script	Greek
Script Extensions	Greek
Indic Syllabic Category	Other
ID Start	Yes
XID Start	Yes
ID Continue	Yes
XID Continue	Yes
Alphabetic	Yes
Math	Yes
Other Math	Yes
Vertical Orientation	Rotated
Grapheme Base	Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break	Other
Word Break	Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break	Upper