U+03BC "μ" Greek Small Letter Mu Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
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U+03BC "μ" Greek Small Letter Mu is the twelfth letter of the Greek alphabet and has widespread applications across mathematics and science. In mathematics, it commonly represents the population mean in statistics and the Möbius function in number theory, while in physics and engineering it denotes coefficients of friction, magnetic permeability, and the micron unit of length. It is distinct from the visually similar micro sign (U+00B5), which is used in measurement units such as micrometers and micrograms, though both are often displayed identically in most fonts.
General Properties
Code Point
U+03BC
Name
Greek Small Letter Mu
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
μ
HTML Hex Encoding
μ
UTF-8 Encoding
0xCE 0xBC
UTF-16 Encoding
0x03BC
UTF-32 Encoding
0x000003BC
C/C++/Java Escape
\u03bc
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
Simple Uppercase Code Point
Simple Titlecase Code Point
Uppercase Code Point
Titlecase Code Point
Script Extensions
Greek