Greek Small Letter Epsilon ε
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.
The symbol “Greek Small Letter Epsilon” is included in the “Letters” subblock of the “Greek and Coptic” block and was approved as part of Unicode version 1.1 in 1993.
| Unicode Name | Greek Small Letter Epsilon |
| Unicode Number | |
| HTML Code | |
| CSS Code | |
| Entity | ε |
| Plane | 0: Basic Multilingual Plane |
| Unicode Block | Greek and Coptic |
| Unicode Subblock | Letters |
| Uppercase | Ε |
| Unicode Version | 1.1 (1993) |
| Alt Code |
Alt 238(English Keyboard Layout)
|
| Type of paired mirror bracket (bidi) | None |
| Composition Exclusion | No |
| Case change | 03B5 |
| Simple case change | 03B5 |
| Alphabetic | + |
| Lowercase | + |
| Cased | + |
| Changes_When_Uppercased | + |
| Changes_When_Titlecased | + |
| Changes_When_Casemapped | + |
| ID_Start | + |
| ID_Continue | + |
| XID_Start | + |
| XID_Continue | + |
| Grapheme_Base | + |
| scripts | Greek |
| 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 |