U+03BF Greek Small Letter Omicron
U+03BF 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 Omicron and its titlecase variant is Greek Capital Letter Omicron.
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+03BF 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:
Omicron (US: , UK: ; uppercase Ο, lowercase ο, Greek: όμικρον) is the fifteenth letter of the Greek alphabet. This letter is derived from the Phoenician letter ayin: . In classical Greek, omicron represented the close-mid back rounded vowel IPA: [o] in contrast to omega which represented the open-mid back rounded vowel IPA: [ɔː] and the digraph ου which represented the long close-mid back rounded vowel IPA: [oː]. In modern Greek, both omicron and omega represent the mid back rounded vowel IPA: [o̞] or IPA: [ɔ̝]. Letters that arose from omicron include Roman O and Cyrillic O|Ю (Cyrillic)|Ю. The word literally means "little O" (o mikron) as opposed to "great O" (ō mega). In the system of Greek numerals, omicron has a value of 70.
Representations
| System | Representation |
|---|---|
| Nº | 959 |
| UTF-8 | CE BF |
| UTF-16 | 03 BF |
| UTF-32 | 00 00 03 BF |
| URL-Quoted | %CE%BF |
| HTML hex reference | ο |
| Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | ο |
| HTML named entity | ο |
| Encoding: BIG5 (hex bytes) | A3 6A |
| Encoding: BIG5HKSCS (hex bytes) | A3 6A |
| Encoding: CP737 (hex bytes) | A6 |
| Encoding: CP869 (hex bytes) | E9 |
| Encoding: CP875 (hex bytes) | AC |
| Encoding: CP932 (hex bytes) | 83 CD |
| Encoding: CP949 (hex bytes) | A5 EF |
| Encoding: CP950 (hex bytes) | A3 6A |
| Encoding: CP1253 (hex bytes) | EF |
| Encoding: EUC_JP (hex bytes) | A6 CF |
| Encoding: EUC_JIS_2004 (hex bytes) | A6 CF |
| Encoding: EUC_JISX0213 (hex bytes) | A6 CF |
| Encoding: EUC_KR (hex bytes) | A5 EF |
| Encoding: GB2312 (hex bytes) | A6 CF |
| Encoding: GBK (hex bytes) | A6 CF |
| Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes) | A6 CF |
| Encoding: HZ (hex bytes) | 7E 7B 26 4F 7E 7D |
| Encoding: ISO2022_JP (hex bytes) | 1B 24 42 26 4F 1B 28 42 |
| Encoding: ISO2022_JP_1 (hex bytes) | 1B 24 42 26 4F 1B 28 42 |
| Encoding: ISO2022_JP_2 (hex bytes) | 1B 24 42 26 4F 1B 28 42 |
| Encoding: ISO2022_JP_2004 (hex bytes) | 1B 24 42 26 4F 1B 28 42 |
| Encoding: ISO2022_JP_3 (hex bytes) | 1B 24 42 26 4F 1B 28 42 |
| Encoding: ISO2022_JP_EXT (hex bytes) | 1B 24 42 26 4F 1B 28 42 |
| Encoding: ISO2022_KR (hex bytes) | 1B 24 29 43 0E 25 6F 0F |
| Encoding: ISO8859_7 (hex bytes) | EF |
| Encoding: JOHAB (hex bytes) | DB 91 |
| Encoding: MAC_GREEK (hex bytes) | EF |
| Encoding: SHIFT_JIS (hex bytes) | 83 CD |
| Encoding: SHIFT_JIS_2004 (hex bytes) | 83 CD |
| Encoding: SHIFT_JISX0213 (hex bytes) | 83 CD |
| Encoding: CP875 (hex bytes) | AC |
| LATEX | o |
| Adobe Glyph List | omicron |
| digraph | o* |
Related Characters
- Greek Capital Letter Omicron
- Greek Small Letter Omicron with Tonos
- Greek Small Letter Omicron with Psili
- Greek Small Letter Omicron with Dasia
- Greek Small Letter Omicron with Varia
- Mathematical Bold Capital Omicron
- Mathematical Bold Small Omicron
- Mathematical Italic Capital Omicron
- Mathematical Italic Small Omicron
- Mathematical Bold Italic Capital Omicron
- Mathematical Bold Italic Small Omicron
- Mathematical Sans-Serif Bold Capital Omicron
- Mathematical Sans-Serif Bold Small Omicron
- Mathematical Sans-Serif Bold Italic Capital Omicron
- Mathematical Sans-Serif Bold Italic Small Omicron
Confusables
Elsewhere
Complete Record
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| 1.1 (1993) | |
| GREEK SMALL LETTER OMICRON | |
| — | |
| Greek and Coptic | |
| Lowercase Letter | |
| Greek | |
| Left To Right | |
| Not Reordered | |
| none | |
| Greek Small Letter Omicron | |
| ✔ | |
| Greek Small Letter Omicron | |
| Greek Small Letter Omicron | |
| ✘ | |
| Greek Capital Letter Omicron | |
| Greek Capital Letter Omicron | |
| Greek Capital Letter Omicron | |
| Greek Capital Letter Omicron | |
| Greek Small Letter Omicron | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Greek Small Letter Omicron | |
| Any | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| ✘ | |
| None | |
| — | |
| NA | |
| Other | |
| — | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Yes | |
| Yes | |
| Greek Small Letter Omicron | |
| Yes | |
| Greek Small Letter Omicron | |
| Yes | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Lower | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Alphabetic Letter | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Greek Small Letter Omicron | |
| None | |
| ambiguous | |
| Not Applicable | |
| — | |
| No_Joining_Group | |
| Non Joining | |
| Alphabetic | |
| none | |
| not a number | |
| Greek Small Letter Omicron | |
| R |