U+039B "Λ" Greek Capital Letter Lamda Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
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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
Name
Greek Capital Letter Lamda
Unicode 1.0 Name
Greek Capital Letter Lambda
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
Numeric Value
NaN
Simple Lowercase Code Point
Lowercase Code Point
Simple Case Folding
Case Folding
NFKC Casefold
NFKC Simple Casefold
Script Extensions
Greek