Greek Small Letter Kappa
Part of Greek Letters
Greek Small Letter Kappa has no standard Windows Alt code. Copy the character directly, or use its HTML entity or Unicode value instead.
- Alt code
- None
- HTML entity
- κ
- Unicode
- U+03BA
About this symbol
Kappa comes from kaph, a Phoenician letter whose name meant the palm of the hand. Greek gave it to Latin as K, though Latin mostly used C for the same sound.
Unicode facts
- Official name
- GREEK SMALL LETTER KAPPA
- Type
- Lowercase letter
- Unicode block
- Greek and Coptic
- Unicode group
- Letters
- Added in
- Unicode 1.1 (1993)
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