U+0396 "Ζ" Greek Capital Letter Zeta Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
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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
Name
Greek Capital Letter Zeta
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
Numeric Value
NaN
Simple Lowercase Code Point
Lowercase Code Point
Simple Case Folding
Case Folding
NFKC Casefold
NFKC Simple Casefold
Script Extensions
Greek