ς
U+03C2 ς

GREEK SMALL LETTER FINAL SIGMA

Ll — Lowercase Letter
Greek
Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP)
962

Encoding Table

This table shows the exact bytes used to represent GREEK SMALL LETTER FINAL SIGMA in each encoding. Unicode encodings (UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32) support every character; legacy encodings only cover a limited character set and show "not supported" when a character falls outside their range.

Encoding Bytes (Hex) Bytes (Decimal) Byte count
UTF-8 CF 82 207 130 2
UTF-16 LE C2 03 194 3 2
UTF-16 BE 03 C2 3 194 2
UTF-32 LE C2 03 00 00 194 3 0 0 4
UTF-32 BE 00 00 03 C2 0 0 3 194 4
ASCII not supported
Latin-1 (ISO-8859-1) not supported
Windows-1252 not supported
ISO-8859-2 (Latin-2) not supported
ISO-8859-5 (Cyrillic) not supported
KOI8-R not supported
Shift-JIS not supported
EUC-JP 8F A6 F8 143 166 248 3
GBK not supported
Big5 not supported

Escape Sequences

How to reference this character in source code, markup, and URLs.

ς
ς
ς
\3C2
\u03C2
%CF%82
\u03c2
962

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UTF-8 Binary Breakdown

UTF-8 encodes this character as 2 bytes. The leading 110 prefix on byte 1 signals a 2-byte sequence. Bytes 2+ begin with 10 to mark them as continuation bytes.

Byte 1
1 1 0 0 1 1 1 1
CF
·
Byte 2
1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
82
UTF-8: CF 82 · 2 bytes · Codepoint U+03C2

Unicode Properties

Introduced in Unicode 1.1
L — Left-to-Right
Uppercase: U+03A3 GREEK CAPITAL LETTER SIGMA
Titlecase: U+03A3 GREEK CAPITAL LETTER SIGMA

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