U+039C "Μ" Greek Capital Letter Mu Unicode Character

U+039C "Μ" Greek Capital Letter Mu is the uppercase form of the twelfth letter in the Greek alphabet, representing the /m/ sound and serving as the ancestor of the Latin letter M. In modern Greek, it is used in writing and typography, while in science and mathematics it often denotes the prefix micro meaning one millionth or represents the coefficient of friction and other variables. Its historical significance spans from ancient Greek inscriptions to its adoption as a symbol in various academic and technical fields.

General Properties

Code Point	U+039C
Version Added	1.1
Name	Greek Capital Letter Mu
Block	Greek and Coptic
General Category	Uppercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	Μ
HTML Hex Encoding	Μ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xCE 0x9C
UTF-16 Encoding	0x039C
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000039C
C/C++/Java Escape	\u039c

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	"μ" U+03BC Greek Small Letter Mu
Lowercase Code Point	"μ" U+03BC Greek Small Letter Mu
Simple Case Folding	"μ" U+03BC Greek Small Letter Mu
Case Folding	"μ" U+03BC Greek Small Letter Mu
Cased	Yes
Changes When Casefolded	Yes
Changes When Casemapped	Yes
Changes When Lowercased	Yes
Changes When NFKC Casefolded	Yes
NFKC Casefold	"μ" U+03BC Greek Small Letter Mu
NFKC Simple Casefold	"μ" U+03BC Greek Small Letter Mu
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