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U+03BB · GREEK SMALL LETTER LAMDA

Greek Small Letter Lamda

CodepointU+03BB
NameGREEK SMALL LETTER LAMDA
Decimal955
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 BB`	2 bytes
UTF-16	`03BB`	1 code unit
UTF-32	`000003BB`	4 bytes
HTML named	`λ`	named character reference
HTML decimal	`λ`
HTML hex	`λ`
CSS	`\3BB`	in content: "…"
JavaScript	`\u03BB`
JSON	`\u03BB`
Python	`\u03BB`
Python	`\N{GREEK SMALL LETTER LAMDA}`	by name
Java / C#	`\u03BB`
C / C++	`\u03BB`	universal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP	`\u{3BB}`
Go	`\u03BB`
Ruby	`\u03BB`
Excel / Sheets	`=UNICHAR(955)`
URL-encoded	`%CE%BB`	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+1D6CC𝛌Mathematical Bold Small Lamda U+1D706𝜆Mathematical Italic Small Lamda U+1D740𝝀Mathematical Bold Italic Small Lamda U+1D77A𝝺Mathematical Sans-Serif Bold Small Lamda U+1D7B4𝞴Mathematical Sans-Serif Bold Italic Small Lamda U+2C96ⲖCoptic Capital Letter Laula U+A7DBꟛLatin Small Letter Lambda U+104DB𐓛Osage Small Letter Ah

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Characters built on λ

U+1D6CC𝛌Mathematical Bold Small Lamda U+1D706𝜆Mathematical Italic Small Lamda U+1D740𝝀Mathematical Bold Italic Small Lamda U+1D77A𝝺Mathematical Sans-Serif Bold Small Lamda U+1D7B4𝞴Mathematical Sans-Serif Bold Italic Small Lamda

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Nearby in Greek and Coptic

All in block →

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