ρ
U+03C1 ρ

GREEK SMALL LETTER RHO

Ll — Lowercase Letter
Greek
Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP)
961

Encoding Table

This table shows the exact bytes used to represent GREEK SMALL LETTER RHO 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 81 207 129 2
UTF-16 LE C1 03 193 3 2
UTF-16 BE 03 C1 3 193 2
UTF-32 LE C1 03 00 00 193 3 0 0 4
UTF-32 BE 00 00 03 C1 0 0 3 193 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 CF 131 207 2
EUC-JP A6 D1 166 209 2
GBK A6 D1 166 209 2
Big5 A3 6C 163 108 2

Escape Sequences

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

ρ
ρ
ρ
\3C1
\u03C1
%CF%81
\u03c1
961

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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 0 1
81
UTF-8: CF 81 · 2 bytes · Codepoint U+03C1

Unicode Properties

Introduced in Unicode 1.1
L — Left-to-Right
Uppercase: U+03A1 GREEK CAPITAL LETTER RHO
Titlecase: U+03A1 GREEK CAPITAL LETTER RHO

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