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Glyph for U+03B6
Source: Noto Sans

U+03B6 Greek Small Letter Zeta

U+03B6 was added in Unicode version 1.1 in 1993. It belongs to the block U+0370 to U+03FF Greek and Coptic in the U+0000 to U+FFFF Basic Multilingual Plane.

This character is a Lowercase Letter and is mainly used in the Greek script. Its uppercase variant is Glyph for U+0396 Greek Capital Letter Zeta and its titlecase variant is Glyph for U+0396 Greek Capital Letter Zeta.

The glyph is not a composition. Its width in East Asian texts is determined by its context. It can be displayed wide or narrow. In bidirectional text it is written from left to right. When changing direction it is not mirrored. The word that U+03B6 forms with similar adjacent characters prevents a line break inside it. The glyph can be confused with 5 other glyphs.

The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:

Zeta (UK: , US: ; uppercase Ζ, lowercase ζ; Ancient Greek: ζῆτα, Demotic Greek: ζήτα, classical [d͡zɛ̌ːta] or [zdɛ̌ːta] zē̂ta; Greek pronunciation: [ˈzita] zíta) is the sixth letter of the Greek alphabet. In the system of Greek numerals, it has a value of 7. It was derived from the Phoenician letter zayin . Letters that arose from zeta include the Roman Z and Cyrillic З.

Representations

System Representation
950
UTF-8 CE B6
UTF-16 03 B6
UTF-32 00 00 03 B6
URL-Quoted %CE%B6
HTML hex reference ζ
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake ζ
HTML named entity ζ
Encoding: BIG5 (hex bytes) A3 61
Encoding: BIG5HKSCS (hex bytes) A3 61
Encoding: CP737 (hex bytes) 9D
Encoding: CP869 (hex bytes) E0
Encoding: CP875 (hex bytes) 8F
Encoding: CP932 (hex bytes) 83 C4
Encoding: CP949 (hex bytes) A5 E6
Encoding: CP950 (hex bytes) A3 61
Encoding: CP1253 (hex bytes) E6
Encoding: EUC_JP (hex bytes) A6 C6
Encoding: EUC_JIS_2004 (hex bytes) A6 C6
Encoding: EUC_JISX0213 (hex bytes) A6 C6
Encoding: EUC_KR (hex bytes) A5 E6
Encoding: GB2312 (hex bytes) A6 C6
Encoding: GBK (hex bytes) A6 C6
Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes) A6 C6
Encoding: HZ (hex bytes) 7E 7B 26 46 7E 7D
Encoding: ISO2022_JP (hex bytes) 1B 24 42 26 46 1B 28 42
Encoding: ISO2022_JP_1 (hex bytes) 1B 24 42 26 46 1B 28 42
Encoding: ISO2022_JP_2 (hex bytes) 1B 24 42 26 46 1B 28 42
Encoding: ISO2022_JP_2004 (hex bytes) 1B 24 42 26 46 1B 28 42
Encoding: ISO2022_JP_3 (hex bytes) 1B 24 42 26 46 1B 28 42
Encoding: ISO2022_JP_EXT (hex bytes) 1B 24 42 26 46 1B 28 42
Encoding: ISO2022_KR (hex bytes) 1B 24 29 43 0E 25 66 0F
Encoding: ISO8859_7 (hex bytes) E6
Encoding: JOHAB (hex bytes) DB 76
Encoding: MAC_GREEK (hex bytes) FA
Encoding: SHIFT_JIS (hex bytes) 83 C4
Encoding: SHIFT_JIS_2004 (hex bytes) 83 C4
Encoding: SHIFT_JISX0213 (hex bytes) 83 C4
Encoding: CP875 (hex bytes) 8F
LATEX \zeta
Adobe Glyph List zeta
digraph z*

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Complete Record

Property Value
Age (age) 1.1 (1993)
Unicode Name (na) GREEK SMALL LETTER ZETA
Unicode 1 Name (na1)
Block (blk) Greek and Coptic
General Category (gc) Lowercase Letter
Script (sc) Greek
Bidirectional Category (bc) Left To Right
Combining Class (ccc) Not Reordered
Decomposition Type (dt) none
Decomposition Mapping (dm) Glyph for U+03B6 Greek Small Letter Zeta
Lowercase (Lower)
Simple Lowercase Mapping (slc) Glyph for U+03B6 Greek Small Letter Zeta
Lowercase Mapping (lc) Glyph for U+03B6 Greek Small Letter Zeta
Uppercase (Upper)
Simple Uppercase Mapping (suc) Glyph for U+0396 Greek Capital Letter Zeta
Uppercase Mapping (uc) Glyph for U+0396 Greek Capital Letter Zeta
Simple Titlecase Mapping (stc) Glyph for U+0396 Greek Capital Letter Zeta
Titlecase Mapping (tc) Glyph for U+0396 Greek Capital Letter Zeta
Case Folding (cf) Glyph for U+03B6 Greek Small Letter Zeta
ASCII Hex Digit (AHex)
Alphabetic (Alpha)
Bidi Control (Bidi_C)
Bidi Mirrored (Bidi_M)
Composition Exclusion (CE)
Case Ignorable (CI)
Changes When Casefolded (CWCF)
Changes When Casemapped (CWCM)
Changes When NFKC Casefolded (CWKCF)
Changes When Lowercased (CWL)
Changes When Titlecased (CWT)
Changes When Uppercased (CWU)
Cased (Cased)
Full Composition Exclusion (Comp_Ex)
Default Ignorable Code Point (DI)
Dash (Dash)
Deprecated (Dep)
Diacritic (Dia)
Emoji Modifier Base (EBase)
Emoji Component (EComp)
Emoji Modifier (EMod)
Emoji Presentation (EPres)
Emoji (Emoji)
Extender (Ext)
Extended Pictographic (ExtPict)
FC NFKC Closure (FC_NFKC) Glyph for U+03B6 Greek Small Letter Zeta
Grapheme Cluster Break (GCB) Any
Grapheme Base (Gr_Base)
Grapheme Extend (Gr_Ext)
Grapheme Link (Gr_Link)
Hex Digit (Hex)
Hyphen (Hyphen)
ID Continue (IDC)
ID Start (IDS)
IDS Binary Operator (IDSB)
IDS Trinary Operator and (IDST)
IDSU (IDSU) 0
ID_Compat_Math_Continue (ID_Compat_Math_Continue) 0
ID_Compat_Math_Start (ID_Compat_Math_Start) 0
Ideographic (Ideo)
InCB (InCB) None
Indic Mantra Category (InMC)
Indic Positional Category (InPC) NA
Indic Syllabic Category (InSC) Other
Jamo Short Name (JSN)
Join Control (Join_C)
Logical Order Exception (LOE)
Modifier Combining Mark (MCM)
Math (Math)
Noncharacter Code Point (NChar)
NFC Quick Check (NFC_QC) Yes
NFD Quick Check (NFD_QC) Yes
NFKC Casefold (NFKC_CF) Glyph for U+03B6 Greek Small Letter Zeta
NFKC Quick Check (NFKC_QC) Yes
NFKC_SCF (NFKC_SCF) Glyph for U+03B6 Greek Small Letter Zeta
NFKD Quick Check (NFKD_QC) Yes
Other Alphabetic (OAlpha)
Other Default Ignorable Code Point (ODI)
Other Grapheme Extend (OGr_Ext)
Other ID Continue (OIDC)
Other ID Start (OIDS)
Other Lowercase (OLower)
Other Math (OMath)
Other Uppercase (OUpper)
Prepended Concatenation Mark (PCM)
Pattern Syntax (Pat_Syn)
Pattern White Space (Pat_WS)
Quotation Mark (QMark)
Regional Indicator (RI)
Radical (Radical)
Sentence Break (SB) Lower
Soft Dotted (SD)
Sentence Terminal (STerm)
Terminal Punctuation (Term)
Unified Ideograph (UIdeo)
Variation Selector (VS)
Word Break (WB) Alphabetic Letter
White Space (WSpace)
XID Continue (XIDC)
XID Start (XIDS)
Expands On NFC (XO_NFC)
Expands On NFD (XO_NFD)
Expands On NFKC (XO_NFKC)
Expands On NFKD (XO_NFKD)
Bidi Paired Bracket (bpb) Glyph for U+03B6 Greek Small Letter Zeta
Bidi Paired Bracket Type (bpt) None
East Asian Width (ea) ambiguous
Hangul Syllable Type (hst) Not Applicable
ISO 10646 Comment (isc)
Joining Group (jg) No_Joining_Group
Joining Type (jt) Non Joining
Line Break (lb) Alphabetic
Numeric Type (nt) none
Numeric Value (nv) not a number
Simple Case Folding (scf) Glyph for U+03B6 Greek Small Letter Zeta
Script Extension (scx)
Vertical Orientation (vo) R