U+0396 "Ζ" Greek Capital Letter Zeta Unicode Character

U+0396 "Ζ" Greek Capital Letter Zeta is the uppercase form of the sixth letter in the Greek alphabet, representing the voiced alveolar sibilant /z/ sound in modern Greek, while in ancient Greek it originally denoted the sound /zd/ or /dz/ depending on the dialect. In the Greek numeral system, Zeta carries the numeric value of 7. The letter's name, Zeta, comes from the Phoenician letter Zayin, from which it was adapted, and its uppercase glyph is visually identical to the Latin letter Z, leading to its common use as a symbol in mathematics, physics, and engineering, notably for the Riemann zeta function.

General Properties

Code Point	U+0396
Version Added	1.1
Name	Greek Capital Letter Zeta
Block	Greek and Coptic
General Category	Uppercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	Ζ
HTML Hex Encoding	Ζ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xCE 0x96
UTF-16 Encoding	0x0396
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00000396
C/C++/Java Escape	\u0396

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	"ζ" U+03B6 Greek Small Letter Zeta
Lowercase Code Point	"ζ" U+03B6 Greek Small Letter Zeta
Simple Case Folding	"ζ" U+03B6 Greek Small Letter Zeta
Case Folding	"ζ" U+03B6 Greek Small Letter Zeta
Cased	Yes
Changes When Casefolded	Yes
Changes When Casemapped	Yes
Changes When Lowercased	Yes
Changes When NFKC Casefolded	Yes
NFKC Casefold	"ζ" U+03B6 Greek Small Letter Zeta
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ζ" U+03B6 Greek Small Letter Zeta
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