U+0395 "Ε" Greek Capital Letter Epsilon Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
Source: Browser Default
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
Name
Greek Capital Letter Epsilon
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
Numeric Value
NaN
Simple Lowercase Code Point
Lowercase Code Point
Simple Case Folding
Case Folding
NFKC Casefold
NFKC Simple Casefold
Script Extensions
Greek