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U+03C9 ω

GREEK SMALL LETTER OMEGA

Ll — Lowercase Letter
Greek
Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP)
969

Encoding Table

This table shows the exact bytes used to represent GREEK SMALL LETTER OMEGA 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 89 207 137 2
UTF-16 LE C9 03 201 3 2
UTF-16 BE 03 C9 3 201 2
UTF-32 LE C9 03 00 00 201 3 0 0 4
UTF-32 BE 00 00 03 C9 0 0 3 201 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 83 D6 131 214 2
EUC-JP A6 D8 166 216 2
GBK A6 D8 166 216 2
Big5 A3 73 163 115 2

Escape Sequences

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

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ω
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\3C9
\u03C9
%CF%89
\u03c9
969

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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
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Byte 2
1 0 0 0 1 0 0 1
89
UTF-8: CF 89 · 2 bytes · Codepoint U+03C9

Unicode Properties

Introduced in Unicode 1.1
L — Left-to-Right
Uppercase: U+03A9 GREEK CAPITAL LETTER OMEGA
Titlecase: U+03A9 GREEK CAPITAL LETTER OMEGA

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