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U+039B · GREEK CAPITAL LETTER LAMDA

Greek Capital Letter Lamda

  • CodepointU+039B
  • NameGREEK CAPITAL LETTER LAMDA
  • Decimal923
  • BlockGreek and Coptic (U+0370–U+03FF)
  • Plane0 — Basic Multilingual Plane
  • ScriptGreek
  • CategoryLu — Uppercase Letter
  • Unicode version1.1 (1993)
  • Bidi classL — Left-to-Right
  • Combining class0
  • East Asian widthA — Ambiguous
  • MirroredNo

About this character

U+039B (Λ) is GREEK CAPITAL LETTER LAMDA, an uppercase letter in the Greek and Coptic block. It belongs to the Greek script. It was added in Unicode 1.1 (1993).

Its lowercase form is U+03BB λ.

How to type Λ

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Encodings & escapes

UTF-8 encoder →
UTF-8CE 9B2 bytes
UTF-16039B1 code unit
UTF-320000039B4 bytes
HTML namedΛnamed character reference
HTML decimalΛ
HTML hexΛ
CSS\39Bin content: "…"
JavaScript\u039B
JSON\u039B
Python\u039B
Python\N{GREEK CAPITAL LETTER LAMDA}by name
Java / C#\u039B
C / C++\u039Buniversal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{39B}
Go\u039B
Ruby\u039B
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(923)
URL-encoded%CE%9Bpercent-encoded UTF-8
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Looks similar

Characters that Unicode’s security data (UTS #39 confusables) lists as visually confusable with this one. Useful for spotting lookalike spoofing in URLs and usernames.

U+0245ɅLatin Capital Letter Turned V U+041BЛCyrillic Capital Letter El U+0668٨Arabic-Indic Digit Eight U+06F8۸Extended Arabic-Indic Digit Eight U+1D6B2𝚲Mathematical Bold Capital Lamda U+1D6EC𝛬Mathematical Italic Capital Lamda U+1D726𝜦Mathematical Bold Italic Capital Lamda U+1D760𝝠Mathematical Sans-Serif Bold Capital Lamda U+1D79A𝞚Mathematical Sans-Serif Bold Italic Capital Lamda U+1431ᐱCanadian Syllabics Pi U+2D37ⴷTifinagh Letter Yad U+A4E5ꓥLisu Letter Nga U+A6CEꛎBamum Letter Mi U+A7DAꟚLatin Capital Letter Lambda U+1028D𐊍Lycian Letter L U+104B0𐒰Osage Capital Letter A
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Characters built on Λ

U+1D6B2𝚲Mathematical Bold Capital Lamda U+1D6EC𝛬Mathematical Italic Capital Lamda U+1D726𝜦Mathematical Bold Italic Capital Lamda U+1D760𝝠Mathematical Sans-Serif Bold Capital Lamda U+1D79A𝞚Mathematical Sans-Serif Bold Italic Capital Lamda
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Nearby in Greek and Coptic

All in block →
U+0395ΕGreek Capital Letter Epsilon U+0396ΖGreek Capital Letter Zeta U+0397ΗGreek Capital Letter Eta U+0398ΘGreek Capital Letter Theta U+0399ΙGreek Capital Letter Iota U+039AΚGreek Capital Letter Kappa U+039CΜGreek Capital Letter Mu U+039DΝGreek Capital Letter Nu U+039EΞGreek Capital Letter Xi U+039FΟGreek Capital Letter Omicron U+03A0ΠGreek Capital Letter Pi U+03A1ΡGreek Capital Letter Rho