U+0395 "Ε" Greek Capital Letter Epsilon Unicode Character

U+0395 "Ε" Greek Capital Letter Epsilon is the uppercase form of the fifth letter in the Greek alphabet, representing a mid front unrounded vowel sound similar to the 'e' in "bet". In classical Greek, it was typically pronounced as a short /e/, and it serves as the source of the Latin letters E and Cyrillic Ye, reflecting its significant role in the historical development of alphabetic writing. This character is commonly used in modern Greek text, mathematics, and science, often as a symbol for various quantities such as electric field strength in physics or the base of natural logarithms in complex contexts.

General Properties

Code Point	U+0395
Version Added	1.1
Name	Greek Capital Letter Epsilon
Block	Greek and Coptic
General Category	Uppercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	Ε
HTML Hex Encoding	Ε
UTF-8 Encoding	0xCE 0x95
UTF-16 Encoding	0x0395
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00000395
C/C++/Java Escape	\u0395

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	"ε" U+03B5 Greek Small Letter Epsilon
Lowercase Code Point	"ε" U+03B5 Greek Small Letter Epsilon
Simple Case Folding	"ε" U+03B5 Greek Small Letter Epsilon
Case Folding	"ε" U+03B5 Greek Small Letter Epsilon
Cased	Yes
Changes When Casefolded	Yes
Changes When Casemapped	Yes
Changes When Lowercased	Yes
Changes When NFKC Casefolded	Yes
NFKC Casefold	"ε" U+03B5 Greek Small Letter Epsilon
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ε" U+03B5 Greek Small Letter Epsilon
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