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GREEK SMALL LETTER THETA

Ll — Lowercase Letter
Greek
Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP)
952

Encoding Table

This table shows the exact bytes used to represent GREEK SMALL LETTER THETA 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 CE B8 206 184 2
UTF-16 LE B8 03 184 3 2
UTF-16 BE 03 B8 3 184 2
UTF-32 LE B8 03 00 00 184 3 0 0 4
UTF-32 BE 00 00 03 B8 0 0 3 184 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 C6 131 198 2
EUC-JP A6 C8 166 200 2
GBK A6 C8 166 200 2
Big5 A3 63 163 99 2

Escape Sequences

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

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\3B8
\u03B8
%CE%B8
\u03b8
952

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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 0
CE
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Byte 2
1 0 1 1 1 0 0 0
B8
UTF-8: CE B8 · 2 bytes · Codepoint U+03B8

Unicode Properties

Introduced in Unicode 1.1
L — Left-to-Right
Uppercase: U+0398 GREEK CAPITAL LETTER THETA
Titlecase: U+0398 GREEK CAPITAL LETTER THETA

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