U+03BC Greek Small Letter Mu
U+03BC was added to Unicode in version 1.1 (1993). It belongs to the block
This character is a Lowercase Letter and is mainly used in the Greek script. It is related to its uppercase variant
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 |
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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 SignGlyph for U+00B5 Greek Capital Letter MuGlyph for U+039C Square Mu AGlyph for U+3382 Square Mu FGlyph for U+338C Square Mu GGlyph for U+338D Square Mu LGlyph for U+3395 Square Mu MGlyph for U+339B Square Mu SGlyph for U+33B2 Square Mu VGlyph for U+33B6 Square Mu WGlyph for U+33BC Mathematical Bold Capital MuGlyph for U+1D6B3 Mathematical Bold Small MuGlyph for U+1D6CD Mathematical Italic Capital MuGlyph for U+1D6ED Mathematical Italic Small MuGlyph for U+1D707 Mathematical Bold Italic Capital MuGlyph for U+1D727 Mathematical Bold Italic Small MuGlyph for U+1D741 Mathematical Sans-Serif Bold Capital MuGlyph for U+1D761 Mathematical Sans-Serif Bold Small MuGlyph for U+1D77B Mathematical Sans-Serif Bold Italic Capital MuGlyph for U+1D79B Mathematical Sans-Serif Bold Italic Small MuGlyph for U+1D7B5
Confusables
Elsewhere
Complete Record
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GREEK SMALL LETTER MU | |
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