U+0393 Greek Capital Letter Gamma
U+0393 was added in Unicode version 1.1 in 1993. It belongs to the block Greek and Coptic in the Basic Multilingual Plane.
This character is a Uppercase Letter and is mainly used in the Greek script. Its lowercase variant is Greek Small Letter Gamma. The character is also known as gamma function.
The glyph is not a composition. Its width in East Asian texts is determined by its context. It can be displayed wide or narrow. In bidirectional text it is written from left to right. When changing direction it is not mirrored. The word that U+0393 forms with similar adjacent characters prevents a line break inside it. The glyph can be confused with 15 other glyphs.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
Gamma (; uppercase Γ, lowercase γ; Greek: γάμμα gámma) is the third letter of the Greek alphabet. In the system of Greek numerals it has a value of 3. In Ancient Greek, the letter gamma represented a voiced velar stop IPA: [ɡ]. In Modern Greek, this letter normally represents a voiced velar fricative IPA: [ɣ], except before either of the two front vowels (/e/, /i/), where it represents a voiced palatal fricative IPA: [ʝ]; while /g/ in foreign words is instead commonly transcribed as γκ).
In the International Phonetic Alphabet and other modern Latin-alphabet based phonetic notations, it represents the voiced velar fricative.
Representations
| System | Representation |
|---|---|
| Nº | 915 |
| UTF-8 | CE 93 |
| UTF-16 | 03 93 |
| UTF-32 | 00 00 03 93 |
| URL-Quoted | %CE%93 |
| HTML hex reference | Γ |
| Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | Γ |
| HTML named entity | Γ |
| alias | gamma function |
| Encoding: EUC-KR (hex bytes) | A5 C3 |
| Encoding: ISO-8859-7 (hex bytes) | C3 |
| Encoding: JIS0208 (hex bytes) | A6 A3 |
| Encoding: WINDOWS-1253 (hex bytes) | C3 |
| LATEX | \Gamma |
| Adobe Glyph List | Gamma |
| digraph | G* |
Related Characters
- Greek Small Letter Gamma
- Double-Struck Capital Gamma
- Mathematical Bold Capital Gamma
- Mathematical Italic Capital Gamma
- Mathematical Bold Italic Capital Gamma
- Mathematical Sans-Serif Bold Capital Gamma
- Mathematical Sans-Serif Bold Italic Capital Gamma
Confusables
Elsewhere
Complete Record
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| 1.1 (1993) | |
| GREEK CAPITAL LETTER GAMMA | |
| — | |
| Greek and Coptic | |
| Uppercase Letter | |
| Greek | |
| Left To Right | |
| Not Reordered | |
| none | |
| Greek Capital Letter Gamma | |
| ✘ | |
| Greek Small Letter Gamma | |
| Greek Small Letter Gamma | |
| ✔ | |
| Greek Capital Letter Gamma | |
| Greek Capital Letter Gamma | |
| Greek Capital Letter Gamma | |
| Greek Capital Letter Gamma | |
| Greek Small Letter Gamma | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Greek Capital Letter Gamma | |
| Any | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| ✘ | |
| None | |
| — | |
| NA | |
| Other | |
| — | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Yes | |
| Yes | |
| Greek Small Letter Gamma | |
| Yes | |
| Greek Small Letter Gamma | |
| Yes | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Upper | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Alphabetic Letter | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Greek Capital Letter Gamma | |
| None | |
| ambiguous | |
| Not Applicable | |
| — | |
| No_Joining_Group | |
| Non Joining | |
| Alphabetic | |
| none | |
| not a number | |
| Greek Small Letter Gamma | |
| R |