Greek · LettersU+03BE · Greek and Coptic
ξ
Greek Small Letter Xi
U+03BE · decimal 958 · Greek and Coptic
Every way to write it
7 formsHTML entity
ξ
A named entity — readable, and safe in any HTML document without declaring a charset.
HTML numeric
ξ
The numeric form works everywhere a named one does, and exists for every character.
CSS content
\03BE
For a content property in a ::before or ::after rule. No semicolon, and mind the trailing space.
JavaScript
\u03BE
Valid in a JavaScript or JSON string literal, so it survives files and pipelines that are not UTF-8 clean.
Python
\u03BE
The escape for a Python string literal.
URL
%CE%BE
Percent-encoded UTF-8, for a query string or a path segment.
UTF-8 bytes
CE BE
2 bytes on the wire. Seeing these as separate garbled characters means something decoded them as single-byte text.
Typing it without copying
system pickermacOS
Control + Command + Space, then search greek small letter xi
Windows
Character Map or Alt + 958
Groups it belongs to
Characters near it
8Code pointU+03BE
EntityNamed
UTF-82 bytes
ASCIINo