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U+03BC · GREEK SMALL LETTER MU

Greek Small Letter Mu

  • CodepointU+03BC
  • NameGREEK SMALL LETTER MU
  • Decimal956
  • 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

About this character

U+03BC (μ) is GREEK SMALL LETTER MU, a lowercase letter in the Greek and Coptic block. It belongs to the Greek script. It was added in Unicode 1.1 (1993).

Its uppercase form is U+039C Μ.

How to type μ

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Encodings & escapes

UTF-8 encoder →
UTF-8CE BC2 bytes
UTF-1603BC1 code unit
UTF-32000003BC4 bytes
HTML namedμnamed character reference
HTML decimalμ
HTML hexμ
CSS\3BCin content: "…"
JavaScript\u03BC
JSON\u03BC
Python\u03BC
Python\N{GREEK SMALL LETTER MU}by name
Java / C#\u03BC
C / C++\u03BCuniversal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{3BC}
Go\u03BC
Ruby\u03BC
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(956)
URL-encoded%CE%BCpercent-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+00B5µMicro Sign U+1D6CD𝛍Mathematical Bold Small Mu U+1D707𝜇Mathematical Italic Small Mu U+1D741𝝁Mathematical Bold Italic Small Mu U+1D77B𝝻Mathematical Sans-Serif Bold Small Mu U+1D7B5𝞵Mathematical Sans-Serif Bold Italic Small Mu
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Characters built on μ

U+00B5µMicro Sign U+3382㎂Square Mu A U+338C㎌Square Mu F U+338D㎍Square Mu G U+3395㎕Square Mu L U+339B㎛Square Mu M U+33B2㎲Square Mu S U+33B6㎶Square Mu V U+33BC㎼Square Mu W U+1D6CD𝛍Mathematical Bold Small Mu U+1D707𝜇Mathematical Italic Small Mu U+1D741𝝁Mathematical Bold Italic Small Mu U+1D77B𝝻Mathematical Sans-Serif Bold Small Mu U+1D7B5𝞵Mathematical Sans-Serif Bold Italic Small Mu
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Nearby in Greek and Coptic

All in block →
U+03B6ζGreek Small Letter Zeta 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+03BDνGreek Small Letter Nu U+03BEξGreek Small Letter Xi U+03BFοGreek Small Letter Omicron U+03C0πGreek Small Letter Pi U+03C1ρGreek Small Letter Rho U+03C2ςGreek Small Letter Final Sigma