Unicode Character "ζ" (U+03B6)

The character ζ (Greek Small Letter Zeta) is represented by the Unicode codepoint U+03B6. It is encoded in the Greek and Coptic block, which belongs to the Basic Multilingual Plane. It was added to Unicode in version 1.1 (June, 1993). It is HTML encoded as ζ.

Main Unicode Properties

Name Greek Small Letter Zeta
Unicode Codepoint U+03B6
Unicode Version 1.1 (June, 1993)
Block Greek and Coptic
Plane Basic Multilingual Plane

Bidirectional Data

Bidirectional class Left To Right (L)
Is mirrored? No

Character Case

Case Lowercase
Uppercase character Ζ (U+0396)

Other Unicode Data

Category Lowercase Letter
Script Greek
Combining Class Not Reordered

U+03B6 Conversion

HTML (decimal) ζ
HTML (hex) ζ
HTML (named) ζ
URL Escape Code %CE%B6
CSS \0003B6
JavaScript, JSON \u03B6
C, C++, Java \u03B6
Python \u03B6
Rust \u{03B6}
Ruby \u03B6

How to type "ζ"

  • Windows ?: Hold Alt, then type 0 3 B 6. Release Alt.
  • Mac ?: Hold Alt ⌥, then type 0 3 B 6. Release Alt.

Preview

  • ζ
    Times, Times New Roman, serif
  • ζ
    Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif
  • ζ
    Courier, Courier New, monospace

UTF Encodings

UTF-8 (hex) 0xCE 0xB6
UTF-16 (hex) 0x03B6
UTF-32 (hex) 0x000003B6

Characters based on "ζ" (U+03B6)

References