Kappa Symbol Copy and Paste

Copy κ, the Greek letter kappa, or take the capital Κ, the script ϰ or the kai sign ϗ.

κGreek small letter kappaU+03BAReady to copy

32 kappa characters and strings. Tap any value to copy it.

32 kappa characters and strings. A character and its name both copy the character. A code copies the code.
Character	Name	Code point	HTML	LaTeX
	U+03BA. The tenth Greek letter, said like the k of make. Geometry writes curvature with it and linear algebra a matrix's condition number. HTML names it κ and LaTeX \kappa; there is no Alt code.
	U+039A. The capital, identical in shape to the Latin K that arose from it. Κ is its HTML name. LaTeX gives it no macro.
	U+03F0. Script kappa, the cursive form of the small letter. It has its own code point because math and science use it as a separate symbol. ϰ in HTML; \varkappa in LaTeX needs the amssymb package.
	U+1D705. Kappa in lowercase, italic, as formulas print a curvature or a condition number. In Greek words the letter stays U+03BA.
	U+1D718. Script kappa once more, now italic: a math alphabet copy of U+03F0.
	U+1D6EB. Italic capital kappa, a math alphabet letter. Its decomposition is U+039A, not the Latin K.
	U+03D7. The kai sign: a kappa with one more stroke at the foot, which Greek manuscripts and signs use for the word and, much as Latin letters use &. Unicode 3.0 (1999) added it.
	Made of U+03BA, U+03B1 and U+03B9. Kappa, alpha, iota: the word for and in modern Greek, spelled out. The kai sign is a short way to write it.
	U+004B. The Latin K. Capital kappa is its ancestor and its double on screen, with a code point of its own: U+039A.
	U+0138. Kra, a Latin letter once used to write Greenlandic. It is shaped like small kappa and stands for a different sound, q. &kgreen; in HTML.
	U+1D6CB. Kappa in lowercase, bold, as formulas print a curvature or a condition number. In Greek words the letter stays U+03BA.
	U+1D73F. Kappa in lowercase, bold italic, as formulas print a curvature or a condition number. In Greek words the letter stays U+03BA.
	U+1D779. Kappa in lowercase, sans-serif bold, as formulas print a curvature or a condition number. In Greek words the letter stays U+03BA.
	U+1D7B3. Kappa in lowercase, sans-serif bold italic, as formulas print a curvature or a condition number. In Greek words the letter stays U+03BA.
	U+1D6DE. Script kappa once more, now bold: a math alphabet copy of U+03F0.
	U+1D752. Script kappa once more, now bold italic: a math alphabet copy of U+03F0.
	U+1D78C. Script kappa once more, now sans-serif bold: a math alphabet copy of U+03F0.
	U+1D7C6. Script kappa once more, now sans-serif bold italic: a math alphabet copy of U+03F0.
	U+1D6B1. Bold capital kappa, a math alphabet letter. Its decomposition is U+039A, not the Latin K.
	U+1D725. Bold italic capital kappa, a math alphabet letter. Its decomposition is U+039A, not the Latin K.
	U+1D75F. Sans-serif bold capital kappa, a math alphabet letter. Its decomposition is U+039A, not the Latin K.
	U+1D799. Sans-serif bold italic capital kappa, a math alphabet letter. Its decomposition is U+039A, not the Latin K.
	U+03CF. The capital of the kai sign, which Unicode added later, in version 5.1 (2008).
	Made of U+03BA, U+03B1 and U+03AF. The same word with an accent on the iota, the way ancient Greek texts print it.
	Made of U+03BA and U+0374. Kappa plus the keraia is the number 20.
	U+041A. Ka. The Cyrillic alphabet took the letter over from kappa.
	U+043A. Ka in lowercase, which looks much like small kappa. &kcy; in HTML.
	U+2C94. Kapa, the Coptic letter in the place of kappa. Unicode spells its name with one p.
	U+2C95. Kapa in lowercase.
	U+2CE4. The kai sign as Coptic writing draws it.
	U+1D0B. A Latin K in small capital form, which kra and small kappa both resemble.
	U+212A. The kelvin sign, a letterlike symbol for the unit kelvin. Unicode defines it as the same character as the Latin K, U+004B.

Next step ι and Ι, the letter before kappa

How it works

κ is the kappa symbol: Greek small letter kappa, U+03BA, the tenth letter of the Greek alphabet. The rows add the capital Κ, the script form ϰ, math styles such as 𝜅, the kai sign ϗ and the look-alike ĸ.

Read the full guide

Kappa is the Greek letter for k

Kappa writes the sound k. The Latin K and the Cyrillic К arose from it, and capital kappa, U+039A, is identical in shape to the Latin K, U+004B. English often spells Greek names that have a kappa with c, as in Corinth and Crete.

κ and ϰ are two code points

ϰ, U+03F0, is script kappa, which Unicode's names list calls a technical symbol. It is the cursive shape of κ, encoded apart for use as a symbol.

As a Greek numeral kappa is 20, written κʹ.
ϗ is the kai sign, a kappa with an extra stroke that stands for the Greek word for and.
LaTeX has \kappa without a package; \varkappa, for ϰ, comes with amssymb.

Questions and answers

How do I type the kappa symbol?

Kappa has no Alt code, so copying is the short way. In HTML κ is the small letter and Κ the capital, κ and Κ as numbers. In LaTeX \kappa prints κ in math mode.

What does the kappa letter stand for?

Small κ is the curvature of a curve in geometry, the condition number of a matrix in linear algebra and a thermal conductivity in physics. In statistics a kappa measures how far raters agree.

Is capital kappa the same as K?

On screen, yes: the two are drawn alike. In a file they differ. Capital kappa is U+039A and the Latin K is U+004B, so a search for one does not find the other.

How do you say kappa?

English says KAP-a, with the stress on the first syllable. Greek writes the name κάππα, with a double pi.

All 32 kappa characters and strings

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Greek capital letter kappa U+039A. The capital, identical in shape to the Latin K that arose from it. Κ is its HTML name. LaTeX gives it no macro.
Greek kai symbol U+03D7. The kai sign: a kappa with one more stroke at the foot, which Greek manuscripts and signs use for the word and, much as Latin letters use &. Unicode 3.0 (1999) added it.
Greek kappa symbol U+03F0. Script kappa, the cursive form of the small letter. It has its own code point because math and science use it as a separate symbol. ϰ in HTML; \varkappa in LaTeX needs the amssymb package.
Greek small letter kappa U+03BA. The tenth Greek letter, said like the k of make. Geometry writes curvature with it and linear algebra a matrix's condition number. HTML names it κ and LaTeX \kappa; there is no Alt code.
Kai, the Greek word for and Made of U+03BA, U+03B1 and U+03B9. Kappa, alpha, iota: the word for and in modern Greek, spelled out. The kai sign is a short way to write it.

Show all 32 kappa characters and strings (27 more)

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Latin capital letter K U+004B. The Latin K. Capital kappa is its ancestor and its double on screen, with a code point of its own: U+039A.
Latin small letter kra U+0138. Kra, a Latin letter once used to write Greenlandic. It is shaped like small kappa and stands for a different sound, q. &kgreen; in HTML.
Mathematical italic capital kappa U+1D6EB. Italic capital kappa, a math alphabet letter. Its decomposition is U+039A, not the Latin K.
Mathematical italic kappa symbol U+1D718. Script kappa once more, now italic: a math alphabet copy of U+03F0.
Mathematical italic small kappa U+1D705. Kappa in lowercase, italic, as formulas print a curvature or a condition number. In Greek words the letter stays U+03BA.

Small kappa κ 4

Mathematical bold italic small kappa U+1D73F. Kappa in lowercase, bold italic, as formulas print a curvature or a condition number. In Greek words the letter stays U+03BA.
Mathematical bold small kappa U+1D6CB. Kappa in lowercase, bold, as formulas print a curvature or a condition number. In Greek words the letter stays U+03BA.
Mathematical sans-serif bold italic small kappa U+1D7B3. Kappa in lowercase, sans-serif bold italic, as formulas print a curvature or a condition number. In Greek words the letter stays U+03BA.
Mathematical sans-serif bold small kappa U+1D779. Kappa in lowercase, sans-serif bold, as formulas print a curvature or a condition number. In Greek words the letter stays U+03BA.

Script kappa ϰ 4

Mathematical bold italic kappa symbol U+1D752. Script kappa once more, now bold italic: a math alphabet copy of U+03F0.
Mathematical bold kappa symbol U+1D6DE. Script kappa once more, now bold: a math alphabet copy of U+03F0.
Mathematical sans-serif bold italic kappa symbol U+1D7C6. Script kappa once more, now sans-serif bold italic: a math alphabet copy of U+03F0.
Mathematical sans-serif bold kappa symbol U+1D78C. Script kappa once more, now sans-serif bold: a math alphabet copy of U+03F0.

Capital kappa Κ 4

Mathematical bold capital kappa U+1D6B1. Bold capital kappa, a math alphabet letter. Its decomposition is U+039A, not the Latin K.
Mathematical bold italic capital kappa U+1D725. Bold italic capital kappa, a math alphabet letter. Its decomposition is U+039A, not the Latin K.
Mathematical sans-serif bold capital kappa U+1D75F. Sans-serif bold capital kappa, a math alphabet letter. Its decomposition is U+039A, not the Latin K.
Mathematical sans-serif bold italic capital kappa U+1D799. Sans-serif bold italic capital kappa, a math alphabet letter. Its decomposition is U+039A, not the Latin K.

The kai sign and kappa in words 3

Greek capital kai symbol U+03CF. The capital of the kai sign, which Unicode added later, in version 5.1 (2008).
Kai with its accent Made of U+03BA, U+03B1 and U+03AF. The same word with an accent on the iota, the way ancient Greek texts print it.
Kappa as a numeral Made of U+03BA and U+0374. Kappa plus the keraia is the number 20.

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Coptic capital letter kapa U+2C94. Kapa, the Coptic letter in the place of kappa. Unicode spells its name with one p.
Coptic small letter kapa U+2C95. Kapa in lowercase.
Coptic symbol kai U+2CE4. The kai sign as Coptic writing draws it.
Cyrillic capital letter ka U+041A. Ka. The Cyrillic alphabet took the letter over from kappa.
Cyrillic small letter ka U+043A. Ka in lowercase, which looks much like small kappa. &kcy; in HTML.

Look-alikes that are not kappa 2

Kelvin sign U+212A. The kelvin sign, a letterlike symbol for the unit kelvin. Unicode defines it as the same character as the Latin K, U+004B.
Latin letter small capital k U+1D0B. A Latin K in small capital form, which kra and small kappa both resemble.

How this list was compiled: Names, and the code points they belong to, are from UnicodeData.txt, version 18.0.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/UnicodeData.txt), printed in sentence case; its decomposition field is what says a math alphabet character is a plain letter in a font, or that an accented letter is a letter plus its marks. Aliases, notes and cross-references are from NamesList.txt of the same version (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/NamesList.txt), the version a character was added in is from DerivedAge.txt (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/DerivedAge.txt), and the years are from https://www.unicode.org/history/publicationdates.html. Alt codes are from the code page 437 table (https://www.unicode.org/Public/MAPPINGS/VENDORS/MICSFT/PC/CP437.TXT). HTML entity names are from https://html.spec.whatwg.org/entities.json, the shortest standard name first. LaTeX macros are listed only when LaTeX's own fontdef.dtx (https://github.com/latex3/latex2e/tree/develop/base) declares them, matched to a code point through unicode-math-table.tex (https://github.com/latex3/unicode-math). That \varkappa belongs to the amssymb package is from that package's own source (https://mirrors.ctan.org/fonts/amsfonts/source/amssymb.dtx). A cell is empty where no such method exists. What kappa is for, as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kappa records it: the tenth letter, the sound k, the numeral value 20, how English says the name and how Greek spells it, the Latin and Cyrillic letters that arose from it, the capital that is identical to the Latin K, Greek names written with c in English, the cursive form and why it has a code point of its own, curvature, the condition number, the kappa statistics and thermal conductivity among its uses, and the rule that styled Greek text keeps the plain letters. The word kai and its sign: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kai_(conjunction). Kra: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kra_(letter). The numeral table: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_numerals. The sound of kappa as the k of make, and the numeral stroke: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_alphabet. Listed: the two letters, script kappa, the fifteen math alphabet forms, the kai sign and its capital, the Cyrillic and Coptic letters, the Coptic kai sign, four characters it is mistaken for, and this site's own strings of two or three characters, each written the way a source writes it. Left out: the other Greek letters, the two Coptic dialect letters named kapa, the syllables of other scripts that only share the name, and the name in Greek letters, which is too long for a row. The Start here group, the made rows and the order are this site's own choice. All sources were read on 2 October 2026; Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA 4.0 and restated in this site's own words. Licence: own work (facts from the Unicode Character Database, Unicode License v3, and from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0, restated in this site's own words; aliases and notes marked as Unicode's are quoted from NamesList.txt, Copyright © 1991-2026 Unicode, Inc., https://www.unicode.org/license.txt)