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U+03B6 · GREEK SMALL LETTER ZETA

Greek Small Letter Zeta

CodepointU+03B6
NameGREEK SMALL LETTER ZETA
Decimal950
BlockGreek and Coptic (U+0370–U+03FF)
Plane0 — Basic Multilingual Plane
ScriptGreek
CategoryLl — Lowercase Letter
Unicode version1.1 (1993)
Bidi classL — Left-to-Right
Combining class0
East Asian widthA — Ambiguous
MirroredNo

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Encodings & escapes

UTF-8 encoder →

UTF-8	`CE B6`	2 bytes
UTF-16	`03B6`	1 code unit
UTF-32	`000003B6`	4 bytes
HTML named	`ζ`	named character reference
HTML decimal	`ζ`
HTML hex	`ζ`
CSS	`\3B6`	in content: "…"
JavaScript	`\u03B6`
JSON	`\u03B6`
Python	`\u03B6`
Python	`\N{GREEK SMALL LETTER ZETA}`	by name
Java / C#	`\u03B6`
C / C++	`\u03B6`	universal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP	`\u{3B6}`
Go	`\u03B6`
Ruby	`\u03B6`
Excel / Sheets	`=UNICHAR(950)`
URL-encoded	`%CE%B6`	percent-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+1D6C7𝛇Mathematical Bold Small Zeta U+1D701𝜁Mathematical Italic Small Zeta U+1D73B𝜻Mathematical Bold Italic Small Zeta U+1D775𝝵Mathematical Sans-Serif Bold Small Zeta U+1D7AF𝞯Mathematical Sans-Serif Bold Italic Small Zeta

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Characters built on ζ

U+1D6C7𝛇Mathematical Bold Small Zeta U+1D701𝜁Mathematical Italic Small Zeta U+1D73B𝜻Mathematical Bold Italic Small Zeta U+1D775𝝵Mathematical Sans-Serif Bold Small Zeta U+1D7AF𝞯Mathematical Sans-Serif Bold Italic Small Zeta

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Nearby in Greek and Coptic

All in block →

U+03B0ΰGreek Small Letter Upsilon with Dialytika and Tonos U+03B1αGreek Small Letter Alpha U+03B2βGreek Small Letter Beta U+03B3γGreek Small Letter Gamma U+03B4δGreek Small Letter Delta U+03B5εGreek Small Letter Epsilon U+03B7ηGreek Small Letter Eta U+03B8θGreek Small Letter Theta U+03B9ιGreek Small Letter Iota U+03BAκGreek Small Letter Kappa U+03BBλGreek Small Letter Lamda U+03BCμGreek Small Letter Mu