U+0394 "Δ" Greek Capital Letter Delta Unicode Character

U+0394 "Δ" Greek Capital Letter Delta is the uppercase form of the fourth letter in the Greek alphabet. In mathematics and science, it is widely used to represent a change or difference between two values, such as in the expression Δx for a change in x. It also appears in various other contexts, including as the symbol for the Laplace operator, the discriminant in quadratic equations, and the Dirac delta function. Additionally, the capital delta is often used in engineering to denote the angle of a slope or the delta connection in electrical circuits, making it a versatile and fundamental symbol in technical notation.

General Properties

Code Point	U+0394
Version Added	1.1
Name	Greek Capital Letter Delta
Block	Greek and Coptic
General Category	Uppercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	Δ
HTML Hex Encoding	Δ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xCE 0x94
UTF-16 Encoding	0x0394
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00000394
C/C++/Java Escape	\u0394

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	"δ" U+03B4 Greek Small Letter Delta
Lowercase Code Point	"δ" U+03B4 Greek Small Letter Delta
Simple Case Folding	"δ" U+03B4 Greek Small Letter Delta
Case Folding	"δ" U+03B4 Greek Small Letter Delta
Cased	Yes
Changes When Casefolded	Yes
Changes When Casemapped	Yes
Changes When Lowercased	Yes
Changes When NFKC Casefolded	Yes
NFKC Casefold	"δ" U+03B4 Greek Small Letter Delta
NFKC Simple Casefold	"δ" U+03B4 Greek Small Letter Delta
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