Ζ Greek Capital Letter Zeta

Codes

JavaScript and JSON strings store text as UTF-16, so this character is one code unit long. Python 3 strings count code points, so its length there is 1.

Properties

Upper and lower case

• ζ U+03B6 Greek Small Letter Zeta — Lowercase

Nearby in Greek and Coptic

• Ύ U+038E Greek Capital Letter Upsilon With Tonos
• Ώ U+038F Greek Capital Letter Omega With Tonos
• ΐ U+0390 Greek Small Letter Iota With Dialytika And Tonos
• Α U+0391 Greek Capital Letter Alpha
• Β U+0392 Greek Capital Letter Beta
• Γ U+0393 Greek Capital Letter Gamma
• Δ U+0394 Greek Capital Letter Delta
• Ε U+0395 Greek Capital Letter Epsilon
• Η U+0397 Greek Capital Letter Eta
• Θ U+0398 Greek Capital Letter Theta
• Ι U+0399 Greek Capital Letter Iota
• Κ U+039A Greek Capital Letter Kappa
• Λ U+039B Greek Capital Letter Lamda
• Μ U+039C Greek Capital Letter Mu
• Ν U+039D Greek Capital Letter Nu
• Ξ U+039E Greek Capital Letter Xi

All 135 characters: Greek and Coptic.

Official reference

• Unicode code chart: Greek and Coptic (PDF, unicode.org)

Questions people ask

What is the HTML code for Ζ?

Use the named entity Ζ, or Ζ (decimal) or Ζ (hex).

What is the UTF-8 encoding of U+0396?

CE 96 (hex), 2 bytes. In a URL it is %CE%96.

How do I write U+0396 in JavaScript or Python?

JavaScript: \u0396. Python: \u0396.

Source

Unicode Character Database 18.0.0 (Unicode License v3); HTML entity names from the WHATWG HTML Standard (CC BY 4.0). The encodings above are computed from the code point and checked against Python's encoders. How the character looks depends on your fonts.

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