Greek kappa

Kappa is written Κ in uppercase and κ in lowercase. Capital Κ and Latin K are separately encoded.

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GREEK CAPITAL LETTER KAPPA

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Character details

Code points: U+039A
UTF-8 bytes: CE 9A
UTF-16 units: 1
Grapheme clusters: 1
HTML hex entities: Κ
JavaScript escapes: \u039A
General category: Lu
Bidirectional class: L

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Meaning and context

Kappa is written Κ in uppercase and κ in lowercase. Capital Κ and Latin K are separately encoded.

How to use it

Here κ is a coefficient with the value 2.5. Keep its definition with the equation and preserve uppercase or lowercase as written.

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Example notation

κ = 2.5

The equation assigns 2.5 to the coefficient κ.

Uppercase and lowercase

Κ U+039A / κ U+03BA

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U+004B

Greek capital kappa is distinct from Latin K.

Greek small kappa

U+03BA

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Sources and method

Unicode 18.0.0 character database — Pinned standard character identities and properties; the application computes UTF encodings from the original text.
Unicode normalization forms (Unicode 18.0.0)

Greek kappa

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