U+03B9 Greek Small Letter Iota
U+03B9 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 Iota and its titlecase variant is Greek Capital Letter Iota.
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+03B9 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:
Iota (; uppercase Ι, lowercase ι; Greek: ιώτα) is the ninth letter of the Greek alphabet. It was derived from the Phoenician letter Yodh. Letters that arose from this letter include the Latin I and J, the Cyrillic І (І, і), Yi (Ї, ї), and Je (Ј, ј), and iotated letters (e.g. Yu (Ю, ю)). In the system of Greek numerals, iota has a value of 10.
Iota represents the close front unrounded vowel IPA: [i]. In early forms of ancient Greek, it occurred in both long [iː] and short [i] versions, but this distinction was lost in Koine Greek. Iota participated as the second element in falling diphthongs, with both long and short vowels as the first element. Where the first element was long, the iota was lost in pronunciation at an early date, and was written in polytonic orthography as iota subscript, in other words as a very small ι under the main vowel. Examples include ᾼ ᾳ ῌ ῃ ῼ ῳ. The former diphthongs became digraphs for simple vowels in Koine Greek.
The word is used in a common English phrase, "not one iota", meaning "not the slightest amount". This refers to iota, the smallest letter, or possibly yodh, י, the smallest letter in the Hebrew alphabet. The English word jot derives from iota. The German, Polish, Portuguese, and Spanish name for the letter J (Jot / jota) is derived from iota.
Representations
| System | Representation |
|---|---|
| Nº | 953 |
| UTF-8 | CE B9 |
| UTF-16 | 03 B9 |
| UTF-32 | 00 00 03 B9 |
| URL-Quoted | %CE%B9 |
| HTML hex reference | ι |
| Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | ι |
| HTML named entity | ι |
| Encoding: BIG5 (hex bytes) | A3 64 |
| Encoding: BIG5HKSCS (hex bytes) | A3 64 |
| Encoding: CP737 (hex bytes) | A0 |
| Encoding: CP869 (hex bytes) | E3 |
| Encoding: CP875 (hex bytes) | 9C |
| Encoding: CP932 (hex bytes) | 83 C7 |
| Encoding: CP949 (hex bytes) | A5 E9 |
| Encoding: CP950 (hex bytes) | A3 64 |
| Encoding: CP1253 (hex bytes) | E9 |
| Encoding: EUC_JP (hex bytes) | A6 C9 |
| Encoding: EUC_JIS_2004 (hex bytes) | A6 C9 |
| Encoding: EUC_JISX0213 (hex bytes) | A6 C9 |
| Encoding: EUC_KR (hex bytes) | A5 E9 |
| Encoding: GB2312 (hex bytes) | A6 C9 |
| Encoding: GBK (hex bytes) | A6 C9 |
| Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes) | A6 C9 |
| Encoding: HZ (hex bytes) | 7E 7B 26 49 7E 7D |
| Encoding: ISO2022_JP (hex bytes) | 1B 24 42 26 49 1B 28 42 |
| Encoding: ISO2022_JP_1 (hex bytes) | 1B 24 42 26 49 1B 28 42 |
| Encoding: ISO2022_JP_2 (hex bytes) | 1B 24 42 26 49 1B 28 42 |
| Encoding: ISO2022_JP_2004 (hex bytes) | 1B 24 42 26 49 1B 28 42 |
| Encoding: ISO2022_JP_3 (hex bytes) | 1B 24 42 26 49 1B 28 42 |
| Encoding: ISO2022_JP_EXT (hex bytes) | 1B 24 42 26 49 1B 28 42 |
| Encoding: ISO2022_KR (hex bytes) | 1B 24 29 43 0E 25 69 0F |
| Encoding: ISO8859_7 (hex bytes) | E9 |
| Encoding: JOHAB (hex bytes) | DB 79 |
| Encoding: MAC_GREEK (hex bytes) | E9 |
| Encoding: SHIFT_JIS (hex bytes) | 83 C7 |
| Encoding: SHIFT_JIS_2004 (hex bytes) | 83 C7 |
| Encoding: SHIFT_JISX0213 (hex bytes) | 83 C7 |
| Encoding: CP875 (hex bytes) | 9C |
| LATEX | \iota |
| Adobe Glyph List | iota |
| digraph | i* |
Related Characters
- Combining Greek Ypogegrammeni
- Greek Ypogegrammeni
- Greek Small Letter Iota with Dialytika and Tonos
- Greek Capital Letter Iota
- Greek Small Letter Iota with Tonos
- Greek Small Letter Iota with Dialytika
- Greek Small Letter Iota with Psili
- Greek Small Letter Iota with Dasia
- Greek Small Letter Iota with Varia
- Greek Small Letter Alpha with Psili and Ypogegrammeni
- Greek Small Letter Alpha with Dasia and Ypogegrammeni
- Greek Small Letter Alpha with Psili and Varia and Ypogegrammeni
- Greek Small Letter Alpha with Dasia and Varia and Ypogegrammeni
- Greek Small Letter Alpha with Psili and Oxia and Ypogegrammeni
- Greek Small Letter Alpha with Dasia and Oxia and Ypogegrammeni
- Greek Small Letter Alpha with Psili and Perispomeni and Ypogegrammeni
- Greek Small Letter Alpha with Dasia and Perispomeni and Ypogegrammeni
- Greek Capital Letter Alpha with Psili and Prosgegrammeni
- Greek Capital Letter Alpha with Dasia and Prosgegrammeni
- Greek Capital Letter Alpha with Psili and Varia and Prosgegrammeni
- Greek Capital Letter Alpha with Dasia and Varia and Prosgegrammeni
- Greek Capital Letter Alpha with Psili and Oxia and Prosgegrammeni
- Greek Capital Letter Alpha with Dasia and Oxia and Prosgegrammeni
- Greek Capital Letter Alpha with Psili and Perispomeni and Prosgegrammeni
- Greek Capital Letter Alpha with Dasia and Perispomeni and Prosgegrammeni
- Greek Small Letter Eta with Psili and Ypogegrammeni
- Greek Small Letter Eta with Dasia and Ypogegrammeni
- Greek Small Letter Eta with Psili and Varia and Ypogegrammeni
- Greek Small Letter Eta with Dasia and Varia and Ypogegrammeni
- Greek Small Letter Eta with Psili and Oxia and Ypogegrammeni
- Greek Small Letter Eta with Dasia and Oxia and Ypogegrammeni
- Greek Small Letter Eta with Psili and Perispomeni and Ypogegrammeni
- Greek Small Letter Eta with Dasia and Perispomeni and Ypogegrammeni
- Greek Capital Letter Eta with Psili and Prosgegrammeni
- Greek Capital Letter Eta with Dasia and Prosgegrammeni
- Greek Capital Letter Eta with Psili and Varia and Prosgegrammeni
- Greek Capital Letter Eta with Dasia and Varia and Prosgegrammeni
- Greek Capital Letter Eta with Psili and Oxia and Prosgegrammeni
- Greek Capital Letter Eta with Dasia and Oxia and Prosgegrammeni
- Greek Capital Letter Eta with Psili and Perispomeni and Prosgegrammeni
- Greek Capital Letter Eta with Dasia and Perispomeni and Prosgegrammeni
- Greek Small Letter Omega with Psili and Ypogegrammeni
- Greek Small Letter Omega with Dasia and Ypogegrammeni
- Greek Small Letter Omega with Psili and Varia and Ypogegrammeni
- Greek Small Letter Omega with Dasia and Varia and Ypogegrammeni
- Greek Small Letter Omega with Psili and Oxia and Ypogegrammeni
- Greek Small Letter Omega with Dasia and Oxia and Ypogegrammeni
- Greek Small Letter Omega with Psili and Perispomeni and Ypogegrammeni
- Greek Small Letter Omega with Dasia and Perispomeni and Ypogegrammeni
- Greek Capital Letter Omega with Psili and Prosgegrammeni
- Greek Capital Letter Omega with Dasia and Prosgegrammeni
- Greek Capital Letter Omega with Psili and Varia and Prosgegrammeni
- Greek Capital Letter Omega with Dasia and Varia and Prosgegrammeni
- Greek Capital Letter Omega with Psili and Oxia and Prosgegrammeni
- Greek Capital Letter Omega with Dasia and Oxia and Prosgegrammeni
- Greek Capital Letter Omega with Psili and Perispomeni and Prosgegrammeni
- Greek Capital Letter Omega with Dasia and Perispomeni and Prosgegrammeni
- Greek Small Letter Alpha with Varia and Ypogegrammeni
- Greek Small Letter Alpha with Ypogegrammeni
- Greek Small Letter Alpha with Oxia and Ypogegrammeni
- Greek Small Letter Alpha with Perispomeni and Ypogegrammeni
- Greek Capital Letter Alpha with Prosgegrammeni
- Greek Prosgegrammeni
- Greek Small Letter Eta with Varia and Ypogegrammeni
- Greek Small Letter Eta with Ypogegrammeni
- Greek Small Letter Eta with Oxia and Ypogegrammeni
- Greek Small Letter Eta with Perispomeni and Ypogegrammeni
- Greek Capital Letter Eta with Prosgegrammeni
- Greek Small Letter Iota with Vrachy
- Greek Small Letter Iota with Macron
- Greek Small Letter Iota with Dialytika and Varia
- Greek Small Letter Iota with Dialytika and Oxia
- Greek Small Letter Iota with Perispomeni
- Greek Small Letter Iota with Dialytika and Perispomeni
- Greek Small Letter Omega with Varia and Ypogegrammeni
- Greek Small Letter Omega with Ypogegrammeni
- Greek Small Letter Omega with Oxia and Ypogegrammeni
- Greek Small Letter Omega with Perispomeni and Ypogegrammeni
- Greek Capital Letter Omega with Prosgegrammeni
- Mathematical Bold Capital Iota
- Mathematical Bold Small Iota
- Mathematical Italic Capital Iota
- Mathematical Italic Small Iota
- Mathematical Bold Italic Capital Iota
- Mathematical Bold Italic Small Iota
- Mathematical Sans-Serif Bold Capital Iota
- Mathematical Sans-Serif Bold Small Iota
- Mathematical Sans-Serif Bold Italic Capital Iota
- Mathematical Sans-Serif Bold Italic Small Iota
Confusables
Elsewhere
Complete Record
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| 1.1 (1993) | |
| GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA | |
| — | |
| Greek and Coptic | |
| Lowercase Letter | |
| Greek | |
| Left To Right | |
| Not Reordered | |
| none | |
| Greek Small Letter Iota | |
| ✔ | |
| Greek Small Letter Iota | |
| Greek Small Letter Iota | |
| ✘ | |
| Greek Capital Letter Iota | |
| Greek Capital Letter Iota | |
| Greek Capital Letter Iota | |
| Greek Capital Letter Iota | |
| Greek Small Letter Iota | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Greek Small Letter Iota | |
| Any | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| ✘ | |
| None | |
| — | |
| NA | |
| Other | |
| — | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Yes | |
| Yes | |
| Greek Small Letter Iota | |
| Yes | |
| Greek Small Letter Iota | |
| Yes | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Lower | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Alphabetic Letter | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Greek Small Letter Iota | |
| None | |
| ambiguous | |
| Not Applicable | |
| — | |
| No_Joining_Group | |
| Non Joining | |
| Alphabetic | |
| none | |
| not a number | |
| Greek Small Letter Iota | |
| R |