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U+03C5 υ

GREEK SMALL LETTER UPSILON

Ll — Lowercase Letter
Greek
Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP)
965

Encoding Table

This table shows the exact bytes used to represent GREEK SMALL LETTER UPSILON 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 85 207 133 2
UTF-16 LE C5 03 197 3 2
UTF-16 BE 03 C5 3 197 2
UTF-32 LE C5 03 00 00 197 3 0 0 4
UTF-32 BE 00 00 03 C5 0 0 3 197 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 D2 131 210 2
EUC-JP A6 D4 166 212 2
GBK A6 D4 166 212 2
Big5 A3 6F 163 111 2

Escape Sequences

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

υ
υ
υ
\3C5
\u03C5
%CF%85
\u03c5
965

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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 1 0 1
85
UTF-8: CF 85 · 2 bytes · Codepoint U+03C5

Unicode Properties

Introduced in Unicode 1.1
L — Left-to-Right
Uppercase: U+03A5 GREEK CAPITAL LETTER UPSILON
Titlecase: U+03A5 GREEK CAPITAL LETTER UPSILON

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