U+039F "Ο" Greek Capital Letter Omicron Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
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U+039F "Ο" Greek Capital Letter Omicron is the uppercase form of the fifteenth letter in the Greek alphabet, which holds a long and important history as the ancestor of the Latin letter "O" and is commonly used in modern Greek writing for the sound /o/. In mathematics and science, it often symbolizes the omicron function or concepts like the big O notation for asymptotic growth, though it can be easily confused with the visually identical Latin capital "O" in digital text. This character also gained public attention during the COVID-19 pandemic when the World Health Organization designated it as the name for the highly transmissible Omicron variant.
General Properties
Code Point
U+039F
Name
Greek Capital Letter Omicron
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
Ο
HTML Hex Encoding
Ο
UTF-8 Encoding
0xCE 0x9F
UTF-16 Encoding
0x039F
UTF-32 Encoding
0x0000039F
C/C++/Java Escape
\u039f
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
Simple Lowercase Code Point
Lowercase Code Point
Simple Case Folding
Case Folding
NFKC Casefold
NFKC Simple Casefold
Script Extensions
Greek