U+03F0 "ϰ" Greek Kappa Symbol Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+03F0 "ϰ" Greek Kappa Symbol is a variant glyph of the Greek letter kappa, commonly used in mathematical and scientific contexts to represent values such as the thermal conductivity coefficient or the magnetic susceptibility. Unlike the standard lowercase kappa (κ), this symbol often appears with a distinct looped or cursive form and is encoded separately to allow for typographic distinction in technical writing. It belongs to the Greek and Coptic block and is frequently employed in fields like physics, engineering, and statistics to denote specific constants or variables without ambiguity.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+03F0 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Greek Kappa Symbol |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Greek Small Letter Script Kappa |
| Block | Greek and Coptic |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Compat |
| Decomposition Mapping | "κ" U+03BA Greek Small Letter Kappa |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ϰ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ϰ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xCF 0xB0 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x03F0 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000003F0 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u03f0 |