U+03C8 "ψ" Greek Small Letter Psi Unicode Character
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U+03C8 "ψ" Greek Small Letter Psi is the twenty-third letter of the Greek alphabet, historically derived from the Phoenician letter samekh, and it is used in modern Greek to represent the sound /ps/ as in the English word "lips." In mathematics and science, the lowercase psi is widely employed as a symbol for wave functions in quantum mechanics, for the digamma function in number theory, and for the psi angle in trigonometry. It also appears in psychology, where it is associated with parapsychology and the study of psychic phenomena, as well as in biochemistry to denote the pseudouridine nucleoside.
General Properties
Code Point
U+03C8
Name
Greek Small Letter Psi
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
ψ
HTML Hex Encoding
ψ
UTF-8 Encoding
0xCF 0x88
UTF-16 Encoding
0x03C8
UTF-32 Encoding
0x000003C8
C/C++/Java Escape
\u03c8
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
Simple Uppercase Code Point
Simple Titlecase Code Point
Uppercase Code Point
Titlecase Code Point
Script Extensions
Greek