ξ
U+03BE ξ

GREEK SMALL LETTER XI

Ll — Lowercase Letter
Greek
Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP)
958

Encoding Table

This table shows the exact bytes used to represent GREEK SMALL LETTER XI 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 BE 206 190 2
UTF-16 LE BE 03 190 3 2
UTF-16 BE 03 BE 3 190 2
UTF-32 LE BE 03 00 00 190 3 0 0 4
UTF-32 BE 00 00 03 BE 0 0 3 190 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 CC 131 204 2
EUC-JP A6 CE 166 206 2
GBK A6 CE 166 206 2
Big5 A3 69 163 105 2

Escape Sequences

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

ξ
ξ
ξ
\3BE
\u03BE
%CE%BE
\u03be
958

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

Unicode Properties

Introduced in Unicode 1.1
L — Left-to-Right
Uppercase: U+039E GREEK CAPITAL LETTER XI
Titlecase: U+039E GREEK CAPITAL LETTER XI

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