U+03F0 "ϰ" Greek Kappa Symbol Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
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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
Name
Greek Kappa Symbol
Unicode 1.0 Name
Greek Small Letter Script Kappa
Decomposition Mapping
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
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
Simple Uppercase Code Point
Simple Titlecase Code Point
Uppercase Code Point
Titlecase Code Point
Simple Case Folding
Case Folding
NFKC Casefold
NFKC Simple Casefold
Script Extensions
Greek