ε Greek Small Letter Epsilon
U+03B5
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Symbol meaning
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.
Greek Small Letter Epsilon was approved as part of Unicode 1.1 in 1993.
Properties
| Age | 1.1 |
| Block | Greek and Coptic |
| Bidi Paired Bracket Type | None |
| Composition Exclusion | No |
| Case Folding | 03B5 |
| Simple Case Folding | 03B5 |
Related characters
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ω
Greek Small Letter Omega
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ξ
Greek Small Letter Xi
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δ
Greek Small Letter Delta
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ζ
Greek Small Letter Zeta
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η
Greek Small Letter Eta
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θ
Greek Small Letter Theta
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ι
Greek Small Letter Iota
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κ
Greek Small Letter Kappa
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λ
Greek Small Letter Lamda
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μ
Greek Small Letter Mu
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ν
Greek Small Letter Nu
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ο
Greek Small Letter Omicron
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β
Greek Small Letter Beta
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π
Greek Small Letter Pi
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ρ
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 |