Greek Letters Symbols

The Greek alphabet in upper and lower case, plus the variant letterforms. Used constantly in mathematics, physics, engineering and statistics: alpha for significance, pi for the circle constant, sigma for summation, omega for resistance.

This group holds 72 characters. They run from U+037C to U+03F9, close enough together to share a neighbourhood but not a single contiguous run. They are drawn from Greek and Coptic (72) in the Unicode Standard, which is what decides how each one is encoded and how software sorts and compares it.

Most of the traffic to this group is for α, λ and θ. The phrase people type for the first of those is alpha symbol, which is worth knowing if you are looking for it under another name.

All 72 come from Greek and Coptic: the Greek alphabet, used throughout mathematics and the sciences. A block is an address rather than a category, and this group is drawn from that block alone.

12 of the 72 have a Windows Alt code that works as printed. The rest are copy and paste, which works the same everywhere.

Of the 72, 2 have a Mac shortcut of their own. Everything else in this drawer is reached by copying it or by its codepoint, which works in every application on every system.

8 have a compatibility decomposition, which means NFKC normalisation rewrites it into something plainer and a search box may not return what was pasted into it.

Every character below copies with one click. 31 of them have a guide page as well, with the Windows, Mac and HTML route written out.

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