U+039B "Λ" Greek Capital Letter Lamda Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
Λ
U+039B "Λ" Greek Capital Letter Lamda is the uppercase form of the eleventh letter in the Greek alphabet, corresponding to the English letter "L." In classical and modern Greek usage, it represents the voiced alveolar lateral approximant sound, but its most iconic modern association is as a symbol in various fields: it stands for wavelength in physics, represents the cosmological constant in astronomy, and is famously used as the emblem of the Spartan warrior shield in popular culture, notably in the film "300." The character is also significant in mathematics and computer science, where it denotes lambda calculus and anonymous functions.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+039B |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Greek Capital Letter Lamda |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Greek Capital Letter Lambda |
| Block | Greek and Coptic |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Λ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Λ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xCE 0x9B |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x039B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000039B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u039b |
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 | "λ" U+03BB Greek Small Letter Lamda |
| Lowercase Code Point | "λ" U+03BB Greek Small Letter Lamda |
| Simple Case Folding | "λ" U+03BB Greek Small Letter Lamda |
| Case Folding | "λ" U+03BB Greek Small Letter Lamda |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "λ" U+03BB Greek Small Letter Lamda |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "λ" U+03BB Greek Small Letter Lamda |
| 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 |