U+0393 "Γ" Greek Capital Letter Gamma Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
Γ
U+0393 "Γ" Greek Capital Letter Gamma is the uppercase form of the third letter in the Greek alphabet, derived from the Phoenician letter giml. In modern Greek, it represents a voiced velar fricative sound similar to the 'g' in the English word "go" but often softer, while in ancient Greek it denoted a hard 'g' sound. This character is also widely used as a mathematical and scientific symbol, standing for the gamma function, the photon in physics, and the reflection coefficient in engineering, among other applications. Its visual shape is a simple, angular capital letter with a horizontal top bar and a vertical stem descending from the left side, making it distinct from the similar-looking Latin "L" or Latin capital "F".
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0393 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Greek Capital Letter Gamma |
| Block | Greek and Coptic |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Γ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Γ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xCE 0x93 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0393 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000393 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0393 |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Alphabetic |
| East Asian Width | Ambiguous |
| Uppercase | Yes |
| Simple Lowercase Code Point | "γ" U+03B3 Greek Small Letter Gamma |
| Lowercase Code Point | "γ" U+03B3 Greek Small Letter Gamma |
| Simple Case Folding | "γ" U+03B3 Greek Small Letter Gamma |
| Case Folding | "γ" U+03B3 Greek Small Letter Gamma |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "γ" U+03B3 Greek Small Letter Gamma |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "γ" U+03B3 Greek Small Letter Gamma |
| Script | Greek |
| Script Extensions | Greek |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| ID Start | Yes |
| XID Start | Yes |
| ID Continue | Yes |
| XID Continue | Yes |
| Alphabetic | Yes |
| Vertical Orientation | Rotated |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Alphabetic letter |
| Sentence Break | Upper |