Greek Small Letter Rho

Part of Greek Letters

Greek Small Letter Rho has no standard Windows Alt code. Copy the character directly, or use its HTML entity or Unicode value instead.

Alt code
None
HTML entity
ρ
Unicode
U+03C1

About this symbol

Rho comes from resh, the Phoenician letter whose name meant head, and it gave Latin its R. In physics ρ is the usual symbol for density.

Unicode facts

Official name
GREEK SMALL LETTER RHO
Type
Lowercase letter
Unicode block
Greek and Coptic
Unicode group
Letters
Added in
Unicode 1.1 (1993)
Capital form
Ρ Greek Capital Letter Rho U+03A1

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