U+03BC Greek Small Letter Mu
U+03BC was added to Unicode in version 1.1 (1993). It belongs to the block Greek and Coptic in the Basic Multilingual Plane.
This character is a Lowercase Letter and is mainly used in the Greek script. It is related to its uppercase variant Greek Capital Letter Mu and its titlecase variant Greek Capital Letter Mu.
The glyph is not a composition. It has a Ambiguous East Asian Width. In bidirectional context it acts as Left To Right and is not mirrored. The glyph can, under circumstances, be confused with 6 other glyphs. In text U+03BC behaves as Alphabetic regarding line breaks. It has type Lower for sentence and Alphabetic Letter for word breaks. The Grapheme Cluster Break is Any.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
Mu (uppercase Μ, lowercase μ; Ancient Greek μῦ [mŷː], Greek: μι or μυ—both [mi]) is the 12th letter of the Greek alphabet, representing the voiced bilabial nasal IPA: [m]. In the system of Greek numerals it has a value of 40. Mu was derived from the Egyptian hieroglyphic symbol for water, which had been simplified by the Phoenicians and named after their word for water, to become 𐤌img (mem). Letters that derive from mu include the Roman M and the Cyrillic М.
Representations
| System | Representation |
|---|---|
| Nº | 956 |
| UTF-8 | CE BC |
| UTF-16 | 03 BC |
| UTF-32 | 00 00 03 BC |
| URL-Quoted | %CE%BC |
| HTML hex reference | μ |
| Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | μ |
| HTML named entity | μ |
| Encoding: EUC-KR (hex bytes) | A5 EC |
| Encoding: ISO-8859-7 (hex bytes) | EC |
| Encoding: JIS0208 (hex bytes) | A6 CC |
| Encoding: WINDOWS-1253 (hex bytes) | EC |
| LATEX | \mu |
| Adobe Glyph List | mugreek |
| digraph | m* |
Related Characters
- Micro Sign
- Greek Capital Letter Mu
- Square Mu A
- Square Mu F
- Square Mu G
- Square Mu L
- Square Mu M
- Square Mu S
- Square Mu V
- Square Mu W
- Mathematical Bold Capital Mu
- Mathematical Bold Small Mu
- Mathematical Italic Capital Mu
- Mathematical Italic Small Mu
- Mathematical Bold Italic Capital Mu
- Mathematical Bold Italic Small Mu
- Mathematical Sans-Serif Bold Capital Mu
- Mathematical Sans-Serif Bold Small Mu
- Mathematical Sans-Serif Bold Italic Capital Mu
- Mathematical Sans-Serif Bold Italic Small Mu
Confusables
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Complete Record
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| 1.1 (1993) | |
| GREEK SMALL LETTER MU | |
| — | |
| Greek and Coptic | |
| Lowercase Letter | |
| Greek | |
| Left To Right | |
| Not Reordered | |
| None | |
| Greek Small Letter Mu | |
| ✔ | |
| Greek Small Letter Mu | |
| Greek Small Letter Mu | |
| ✘ | |
| Greek Capital Letter Mu | |
| Greek Capital Letter Mu | |
| Greek Capital Letter Mu | |
| Greek Capital Letter Mu | |
| Greek Small Letter Mu | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Greek Small Letter Mu | |
| Any | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| — | |
| NA | |
| Other | |
| — | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Yes | |
| Yes | |
| Greek Small Letter Mu | |
| Yes | |
| Yes | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Lower | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Alphabetic Letter | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Greek Small Letter Mu | |
| None | |
| Ambiguous | |
| Not Applicable | |
| — | |
| No_Joining_Group | |
| Non Joining | |
| Alphabetic | |
| None | |
| not a number | |
| Greek Small Letter Mu | |
| R |