U+0396 Greek Capital Letter Zeta
U+0396 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 Zeta.
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+0396 forms with similar adjacent characters prevents a line break inside it. The glyph can be confused with one other glyph.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
Zeta (UK: , US: ; uppercase Ζ, lowercase ζ; Ancient Greek: ζῆτα, Demotic Greek: ζήτα, classical [d͡zɛ̌:ta] or [zdɛ̌:ta] zē̂ta; Greek pronunciation: [ˈzita] zíta) is the sixth letter of the Greek alphabet. In the system of Greek numerals, it has a value of 7. It was derived from the Phoenician letter zayin . Letters that arose from zeta include the Roman Z and Cyrillic З.
Representations
| System | Representation |
|---|---|
| Nº | 918 |
| UTF-8 | CE 96 |
| UTF-16 | 03 96 |
| UTF-32 | 00 00 03 96 |
| URL-Quoted | %CE%96 |
| HTML hex reference | Ζ |
| Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | Ζ |
| HTML named entity | Ζ |
| Encoding: EUC-KR (hex bytes) | A5 C6 |
| Encoding: ISO-8859-7 (hex bytes) | C6 |
| Encoding: JIS0208 (hex bytes) | A6 A6 |
| Encoding: WINDOWS-1253 (hex bytes) | C6 |
| LATEX | \Zeta |
| Adobe Glyph List | Zeta |
| digraph | Z* |
Related Characters
- Greek Small Letter Zeta
- Mathematical Bold Capital Zeta
- Mathematical Italic Capital Zeta
- Mathematical Bold Italic Capital Zeta
- Mathematical Sans-Serif Bold Capital Zeta
- Mathematical Sans-Serif Bold Italic Capital Zeta
Confusables
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Complete Record
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| 1.1 (1993) | |
| GREEK CAPITAL LETTER ZETA | |
| — | |
| Greek and Coptic | |
| Uppercase Letter | |
| Greek | |
| Left To Right | |
| Not Reordered | |
| none | |
| Greek Capital Letter Zeta | |
| ✘ | |
| Greek Small Letter Zeta | |
| Greek Small Letter Zeta | |
| ✔ | |
| Greek Capital Letter Zeta | |
| Greek Capital Letter Zeta | |
| Greek Capital Letter Zeta | |
| Greek Capital Letter Zeta | |
| Greek Small Letter Zeta | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Greek Capital Letter Zeta | |
| Any | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| ✘ | |
| None | |
| — | |
| NA | |
| Other | |
| — | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Yes | |
| Yes | |
| Greek Small Letter Zeta | |
| Yes | |
| Greek Small Letter Zeta | |
| Yes | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Upper | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Alphabetic Letter | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Greek Capital Letter Zeta | |
| None | |
| ambiguous | |
| Not Applicable | |
| — | |
| No_Joining_Group | |
| Non Joining | |
| Alphabetic | |
| none | |
| not a number | |
| Greek Small Letter Zeta | |
| R |