ε

Greek Small Letter Epsilon

U+03B5

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Technical information

Name	Greek Small Letter Epsilon
Unicode number	U+03B5
HTML-code	ε
CSS-code	\03B5
Entity	ε
Block	Greek and Coptic
Uppercase	Ε
Unicode version:	1.1.5 (1993)

Character description

Interesting and peculiar letter ε-epsilon is the fifth letter of the Greek alphabet. Its numeric value is number 5. Epsilon's origin comes from the Phoenician letter "hē". The pronunciation of the letter ε lies between sounds «Y» and «U». There is no analog to epsilon in the Russian alphabet.

The letter is popular and it is used everywhere outside the Greek alphabet, for example in such scientific fields:

Math;
Physics;
Astronomy (the fifth brightest star);
Computer science (as an empty line);
Programming (as the accuracy of the amount of data)
Phonetics.

Text is also available in the following languages: Русский;

Related characters

Greek Small Letter Omega

Greek Small Letter Xi

Greek Small Letter Delta

Greek Small Letter Zeta

Greek Small Letter Eta

Greek Small Letter Theta

Greek Small Letter Iota

Greek Small Letter Kappa

Greek Small Letter Lamda

Greek Small Letter Mu

Greek Small Letter Nu

Greek Small Letter Omicron

Greek Small Letter Beta

Greek Small Letter Pi

Greek Small Letter Rho

Encoding

Encoding	hex	dec (bytes)	dec	binary
UTF-8	CE B5	206 181	52917	11001110 10110101
UTF-16BE	03 B5	3 181	949	00000011 10110101
UTF-16LE	B5 03	181 3	46339	10110101 00000011
UTF-32BE	00 00 03 B5	0 0 3 181	949	00000000 00000000 00000011 10110101
UTF-32LE	B5 03 00 00	181 3 0 0	3036872704	10110101 00000011 00000000 00000000

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ε Greek Small Letter Epsilon