U+03BE Greek Small Letter Xi
U+03BE was added in Unicode version 1.1 in 1993. It belongs to the block Greek and Coptic in the Basic Multilingual Plane.
This character is a Lowercase Letter and is mainly used in the Greek script. Its uppercase variant is Greek Capital Letter Xi and its titlecase variant is Greek Capital Letter Xi.
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+03BE forms with similar adjacent characters prevents a line break inside it. The glyph can be confused with 5 other glyphs.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
Xi (UK: , US: ; uppercase Ξ, lowercase ξ; Greek: ξι) is the fourteenth letter of the Greek alphabet, representing the voiceless consonant cluster [ks]. Its name is pronounced [ksi] in Modern Greek. In the system of Greek numerals, it has a value of 60. Xi was derived from the Phoenician letter samekh .
Xi is distinct from the letter chi, which gave its form to the Latin letter X.
Representations
| System | Representation |
|---|---|
| Nº | 958 |
| UTF-8 | CE BE |
| UTF-16 | 03 BE |
| UTF-32 | 00 00 03 BE |
| URL-Quoted | %CE%BE |
| HTML hex reference | ξ |
| Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | ξ |
| HTML named entity | ξ |
| Encoding: EUC-KR (hex bytes) | A5 EE |
| Encoding: ISO-8859-7 (hex bytes) | EE |
| Encoding: JIS0208 (hex bytes) | A6 CE |
| Encoding: WINDOWS-1253 (hex bytes) | EE |
| LATEX | \xi |
| Adobe Glyph List | xi |
| digraph | c* |
Related Characters
- Greek Capital Letter Xi
- Mathematical Bold Capital Xi
- Mathematical Bold Small Xi
- Mathematical Italic Capital Xi
- Mathematical Italic Small Xi
- Mathematical Bold Italic Capital Xi
- Mathematical Bold Italic Small Xi
- Mathematical Sans-Serif Bold Capital Xi
- Mathematical Sans-Serif Bold Small Xi
- Mathematical Sans-Serif Bold Italic Capital Xi
- Mathematical Sans-Serif Bold Italic Small Xi
Confusables
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Complete Record
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| 1.1 (1993) | |
| GREEK SMALL LETTER XI | |
| — | |
| Greek and Coptic | |
| Lowercase Letter | |
| Greek | |
| Left To Right | |
| Not Reordered | |
| none | |
| Greek Small Letter Xi | |
| ✔ | |
| Greek Small Letter Xi | |
| Greek Small Letter Xi | |
| ✘ | |
| Greek Capital Letter Xi | |
| Greek Capital Letter Xi | |
| Greek Capital Letter Xi | |
| Greek Capital Letter Xi | |
| Greek Small Letter Xi | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Greek Small Letter Xi | |
| Any | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| ✘ | |
| None | |
| — | |
| NA | |
| Other | |
| — | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Yes | |
| Yes | |
| Greek Small Letter Xi | |
| Yes | |
| Greek Small Letter Xi | |
| Yes | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Lower | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Alphabetic Letter | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Greek Small Letter Xi | |
| None | |
| ambiguous | |
| Not Applicable | |
| — | |
| No_Joining_Group | |
| Non Joining | |
| Alphabetic | |
| none | |
| not a number | |
| Greek Small Letter Xi | |
| R |