Unicode Character "σ" U+03C3 Greek Small Letter Sigma
Unicode Version 15.1
σ
Summary
The unicode character "σ" at code point U+03C3 is Greek Small Letter Sigma. It is a character in the Greek and Coptic block and is part of the Greek script. The character is a lowercase letter. The UTF-8 encoding of "σ" is 0xCF 0x83 and the UTF-16 encoding is 0x03C3.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+03C3 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Greek Small Letter Sigma |
| Block | Greek and Coptic |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Entity | σ |
| HTML Decimal Encoding | σ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | σ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xCF 0x83 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x03C3 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000003C3 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u03c3 |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Alphabetic |
| East Asian Width | Ambiguous |
| Lowercase | Yes |
| Simple Uppercase Code Point | "Σ" U+03A3 Greek Capital Letter Sigma |
| Simple Titlecase Code Point | "Σ" U+03A3 Greek Capital Letter Sigma |
| Uppercase Code Point | "Σ" U+03A3 Greek Capital Letter Sigma |
| Titlecase Code Point | "Σ" U+03A3 Greek Capital Letter Sigma |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Titlecased | Yes |
| Changes When Uppercased | Yes |
| Script | Greek |
| Script Extensions | Greek |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| ID Start | Yes |
| XID Start | Yes |
| ID Continue | Yes |
| XID Continue | Yes |
| Alphabetic | Yes |
| Vertical Orientation | Rotated |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Alphabetic letter |
| Sentence Break | Lower |