Greek Small Letter Xi
Part of Greek Letters
Greek Small Letter Xi has no standard Windows Alt code. Copy the character directly, or use its HTML entity or Unicode value instead.
- Alt code
- None
- HTML entity
- ξ
- Unicode
- U+03BE
About this symbol
When the World Health Organization named the Covid variant omicron in November 2021, it skipped two letters, nu and xi: nu because it sounds like new, and xi because it is a common surname.
Unicode facts
- Official name
- GREEK SMALL LETTER XI
- Type
- Lowercase letter
- Unicode block
- Greek and Coptic
- Unicode group
- Letters
- Added in
- Unicode 1.1 (1993)
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