Greek Small Letter Psi
U+03C8 · decimal 968 · Greek and Coptic
Every way to write it
7 formsψ
A named entity — readable, and safe in any HTML document without declaring a charset.
ψ
The numeric form works everywhere a named one does, and exists for every character.
\03C8
For a content property in a ::before or ::after rule. No semicolon, and mind the trailing space.
\u03C8
Valid in a JavaScript or JSON string literal, so it survives files and pipelines that are not UTF-8 clean.
\u03C8
The escape for a Python string literal.
%CF%88
Percent-encoded UTF-8, for a query string or a path segment.
CF 88
2 bytes on the wire. Seeing these as separate garbled characters means something decoded them as single-byte text.
Typing it without copying
system pickerControl + Command + Space, then search greek small letter psi
Character Map or Alt + 968