ASCII Character χ
Greek small letter chiChi /ˈkaɪ, ˈxiː/ (uppercase Χ, lowercase χ; Greek: χῖ) is the 22nd letter of the Greek alphabet. Its value in Ancient Greek was an aspirated velar stop /kʰ/ (in the Western Greek alphabet: /ks/). In the system of Greek numerals, it has a value of 600. Chi was also included in the Cyrillic script as the letter Х, with the phonetic value /x/ or /h/. Chi or X is often used to abbreviate the name Christ, as in the holiday Christmas (Xmas). When fused within a single typespace with the Greek letter rho, it is called the labarum and used to represent the person of Jesus Christ.
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ASCII Code for χ
These are the code points for greek small letter chi in various character sets| Character Sets | Decimal | Hex |
|---|---|---|
| ISO-8859-7 | 247 | F7 |
| Windows-1253 | 247 | F7 |
Unicode for χ
The character for greek small letter chi is mapped in Unicode as U+03C7| Unicode | U+03C7 | |
|---|---|---|
| Unicode Decimal | 967 | |
| Unicode Escape | \u03c7 | |
| UTF-8 (hex) | 0xCF 0x87 | |
| UTF-8 (binary) | 11001111:10000111 | |
| UTF-8 (binary) | ||
| 11001111:10000111 | ||
| UTF-16 | 0x03C7 | |
| UTF-32 | 0x000003C7 | |
HTML Entities for χ
The following HTML entities can be used to represent the greek small letter chi in HTML| HTML Number | χ | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML Hex | χ | |
| HTML Entity | χ | |
Encoding
Encoding non-standard letters and characters into values that can be displayed e.g. in browsers| URL Escape Code | %CF%87 | |
|---|---|---|
| Quoted-printable | =CF=87 |
Source Code
| C, C++, and Java | "\u03C7" | |
|---|---|---|
| CSS Code | \03C7 | |
| JavaScript | "\u03C7" | |
| Perl | \x{03C7} | |
| Python 2 | u"\u03C7" | |
| Python 3 | \u03C7 | |
| Ruby | \u{03C7} |