U+03B3 "γ" Greek Small Letter Gamma Unicode Character

U+03B3 "γ" Greek Small Letter Gamma is the third letter of the Greek alphabet, historically derived from the Phoenician letter gimel, and it represents a voiced velar stop sound in Ancient Greek. In modern Greek, it is typically pronounced as a voiced velar fricative and remains a common symbol in scientific and mathematical contexts, where it frequently denotes the gamma function, the Lorentz factor in relativity, or the photon in particle physics. Its uppercase counterpart is U+0393 "Γ" Gamma.

General Properties

Code Point	U+03B3
Version Added	1.1
Name	Greek Small Letter Gamma
Block	Greek and Coptic
General Category	Lowercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	γ
HTML Hex Encoding	γ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xCE 0xB3
UTF-16 Encoding	0x03B3
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000003B3
C/C++/Java Escape	\u03b3

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
Lowercase	Yes
Simple Uppercase Code Point	"Γ" U+0393 Greek Capital Letter Gamma
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"Γ" U+0393 Greek Capital Letter Gamma
Uppercase Code Point	"Γ" U+0393 Greek Capital Letter Gamma
Titlecase Code Point	"Γ" U+0393 Greek Capital Letter Gamma
Cased	Yes
Changes When Casemapped	Yes
Changes When Titlecased	Yes
Changes When Uppercased	Yes
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	Lower