# \kappa

The κ symbol (Greek small letter kappa, U+03BA), written as \kappa in LaTeX math mode.

https://texform.dev/latex/symbols/kappa

## Metadata

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Topic | [Greek letters](https://texform.dev/latex/topics/greek) |
| Packages | base |
| Allowed mode | math |
| Glyph | κ |
| Unicode | U+03BA GREEK SMALL LETTER KAPPA |
| Delimiter | No |

## Syntax

```latex
\kappa
```

Takes no arguments.

## Usage frequency

2.52% of formulas in the measured corpus contain this entry, rank 41 of 474 entries with frequency data.

## In TeXForm

TeXForm parses this entry as a character leaf mapped to U+03BA (GREEK SMALL LETTER KAPPA).