ψ
U+03C8 ψ

GREEK SMALL LETTER PSI

Ll — Lowercase Letter
Greek
Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP)
968

Encoding Table

This table shows the exact bytes used to represent GREEK SMALL LETTER PSI 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 88 207 136 2
UTF-16 LE C8 03 200 3 2
UTF-16 BE 03 C8 3 200 2
UTF-32 LE C8 03 00 00 200 3 0 0 4
UTF-32 BE 00 00 03 C8 0 0 3 200 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 D5 131 213 2
EUC-JP A6 D7 166 215 2
GBK A6 D7 166 215 2
Big5 A3 72 163 114 2

Escape Sequences

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

ψ
ψ
ψ
\3C8
\u03C8
%CF%88
\u03c8
968

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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 1 0 0 0
88
UTF-8: CF 88 · 2 bytes · Codepoint U+03C8

Unicode Properties

Introduced in Unicode 1.1
L — Left-to-Right
Uppercase: U+03A8 GREEK CAPITAL LETTER PSI
Titlecase: U+03A8 GREEK CAPITAL LETTER PSI

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