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Glyph for U+0398
Source: Noto Sans

U+0398 Greek Capital Letter Theta

U+0398 was added in Unicode version 1.1 in 1993. It belongs to the block U+0370 to U+03FF Greek and Coptic in the U+0000 to U+FFFF Basic Multilingual Plane.

This character is a Uppercase Letter and is mainly used in the Greek script. Its lowercase variant is Glyph for U+03B8 Greek Small Letter Theta.

The glyph is not a composition. Its width in East Asian texts is determined by its context. It can be displayed wide or narrow. In bidirectional text it is written from left to right. When changing direction it is not mirrored. The word that U+0398 forms with similar adjacent characters prevents a line break inside it. The glyph can be confused with one other glyph.

The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:

Theta (UK: , US: ; uppercase Θ or ϴ; lowercase θ or ϑ; Ancient Greek: θῆτα thē̂ta [tʰɛ̂ːta]; Modern: θήτα thī́ta [ˈθita]) is the eighth letter of the Greek alphabet, derived from the Phoenician letter Teth . In the system of Greek numerals, it has a value of 9.

Representations

System Representation
Nº 920
UTF-8 CE 98
UTF-16 03 98
UTF-32 00 00 03 98
URL-Quoted %CE%98
HTML hex reference Θ
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake Θ
HTML named entity Θ
Encoding: EUC-KR (hex bytes) A5 C8
Encoding: ISO-8859-7 (hex bytes) C8
Encoding: JIS0208 (hex bytes) A6 A8
Encoding: WINDOWS-1253 (hex bytes) C8
LATEX \Theta
Adobe Glyph List Theta
digraph H*

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Complete Record

Property Value
Age (age) 1.1 (1993)
Unicode Name (na) GREEK CAPITAL LETTER THETA
Unicode 1 Name (na1) —
Block (blk) Greek and Coptic
General Category (gc) Uppercase Letter
Script (sc) Greek
Bidirectional Category (bc) Left To Right
Combining Class (ccc) Not Reordered
Decomposition Type (dt) none
Decomposition Mapping (dm) Glyph for U+0398 Greek Capital Letter Theta
Lowercase (Lower) ✘
Simple Lowercase Mapping (slc) Glyph for U+03B8 Greek Small Letter Theta
Lowercase Mapping (lc) Glyph for U+03B8 Greek Small Letter Theta
Uppercase (Upper) ✔
Simple Uppercase Mapping (suc) Glyph for U+0398 Greek Capital Letter Theta
Uppercase Mapping (uc) Glyph for U+0398 Greek Capital Letter Theta
Simple Titlecase Mapping (stc) Glyph for U+0398 Greek Capital Letter Theta
Titlecase Mapping (tc) Glyph for U+0398 Greek Capital Letter Theta
Case Folding (cf) Glyph for U+03B8 Greek Small Letter Theta
ASCII Hex Digit (AHex) ✘
Alphabetic (Alpha) ✔
Bidi Control (Bidi_C) ✘
Bidi Mirrored (Bidi_M) ✘
Composition Exclusion (CE) ✘
Case Ignorable (CI) ✘
Changes When Casefolded (CWCF) ✔
Changes When Casemapped (CWCM) ✔
Changes When NFKC Casefolded (CWKCF) ✔
Changes When Lowercased (CWL) ✔
Changes When Titlecased (CWT) ✘
Changes When Uppercased (CWU) ✘
Cased (Cased) ✔
Full Composition Exclusion (Comp_Ex) ✘
Default Ignorable Code Point (DI) ✘
Dash (Dash) ✘
Deprecated (Dep) ✘
Diacritic (Dia) ✘
Emoji Modifier Base (EBase) ✘
Emoji Component (EComp) ✘
Emoji Modifier (EMod) ✘
Emoji Presentation (EPres) ✘
Emoji (Emoji) ✘
Extender (Ext) ✘
Extended Pictographic (ExtPict) ✘
FC NFKC Closure (FC_NFKC) Glyph for U+0398 Greek Capital Letter Theta
Grapheme Cluster Break (GCB) Any
Grapheme Base (Gr_Base) ✔
Grapheme Extend (Gr_Ext) ✘
Grapheme Link (Gr_Link) ✘
Hex Digit (Hex) ✘
Hyphen (Hyphen) ✘
ID Continue (IDC) ✔
ID Start (IDS) ✔
IDS Binary Operator (IDSB) ✘
IDS Trinary Operator and (IDST) ✘
IDSU (IDSU) 0
ID_Compat_Math_Continue (ID_Compat_Math_Continue) 0
ID_Compat_Math_Start (ID_Compat_Math_Start) 0
Ideographic (Ideo) ✘
InCB (InCB) None
Indic Mantra Category (InMC) —
Indic Positional Category (InPC) NA
Indic Syllabic Category (InSC) Other
Jamo Short Name (JSN) —
Join Control (Join_C) ✘
Logical Order Exception (LOE) ✘
Math (Math) ✘
Noncharacter Code Point (NChar) ✘
NFC Quick Check (NFC_QC) Yes
NFD Quick Check (NFD_QC) Yes
NFKC Casefold (NFKC_CF) Glyph for U+03B8 Greek Small Letter Theta
NFKC Quick Check (NFKC_QC) Yes
NFKC_SCF (NFKC_SCF) Glyph for U+03B8 Greek Small Letter Theta
NFKD Quick Check (NFKD_QC) Yes
Other Alphabetic (OAlpha) ✘
Other Default Ignorable Code Point (ODI) ✘
Other Grapheme Extend (OGr_Ext) ✘
Other ID Continue (OIDC) ✘
Other ID Start (OIDS) ✘
Other Lowercase (OLower) ✘
Other Math (OMath) ✘
Other Uppercase (OUpper) ✘
Prepended Concatenation Mark (PCM) ✘
Pattern Syntax (Pat_Syn) ✘
Pattern White Space (Pat_WS) ✘
Quotation Mark (QMark) ✘
Regional Indicator (RI) ✘
Radical (Radical) ✘
Sentence Break (SB) Upper
Soft Dotted (SD) ✘
Sentence Terminal (STerm) ✘
Terminal Punctuation (Term) ✘
Unified Ideograph (UIdeo) ✘
Variation Selector (VS) ✘
Word Break (WB) Alphabetic Letter
White Space (WSpace) ✘
XID Continue (XIDC) ✔
XID Start (XIDS) ✔
Expands On NFC (XO_NFC) ✘
Expands On NFD (XO_NFD) ✘
Expands On NFKC (XO_NFKC) ✘
Expands On NFKD (XO_NFKD) ✘
Bidi Paired Bracket (bpb) Glyph for U+0398 Greek Capital Letter Theta
Bidi Paired Bracket Type (bpt) None
East Asian Width (ea) ambiguous
Hangul Syllable Type (hst) Not Applicable
ISO 10646 Comment (isc) —
Joining Group (jg) No_Joining_Group
Joining Type (jt) Non Joining
Line Break (lb) Alphabetic
Numeric Type (nt) none
Numeric Value (nv) not a number
Simple Case Folding (scf) Glyph for U+03B8 Greek Small Letter Theta
Script Extension (scx)
Vertical Orientation (vo) R