Greek Small Letter Iota
Part of Greek Letters
Greek Small Letter Iota has no standard Windows Alt code. Copy the character directly, or use its HTML entity or Unicode value instead.
- Alt code
- None
- HTML entity
- ι
- Unicode
- U+03B9
About this symbol
Small iota is sometimes written below a vowel instead of after it, as ᾳ, the iota subscript. The sound it stood for had stopped being said by the Byzantine period, and scribes shrank the letter beneath the vowel to keep the old spelling.
Unicode facts
- Official name
- GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA
- Type
- Lowercase letter
- Unicode block
- Greek and Coptic
- Unicode group
- Letters
- Added in
- Unicode 1.1 (1993)
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