Greek Small Letter Gamma γ
Symbol Meaning
Gamma is the third letter of the Greek alphabet. In the Ionian number system, it meant the number 3. It originated from the Phoenician letter gaml 𐤂 . Many other Latin and Cyrillic letters (G, C, Г ...) originated from the same scale.
A lower case Greek gamma letter is widely used in scientific notation (in mathematics, physics, astronomy).
In geometry, when specifying angles, they are usually used in the order of alpha, beta, and gamma.
Gamma radiation (γ-rays) — electromagnetic radiation in the extremely short-wavelength range.
“Gamma” is often part of the stars' name (γ Centauri — Gamma Centauri), usually indicates their relative luminosity (alpha is the brightest star in the constellation, beta, and gamma dimmer).
The symbol “Greek Small Letter Gamma” is included in the “Letters” subblock of the “Greek and Coptic” block and was approved as part of Unicode version 1.1 in 1993.
| Unicode Name | Greek Small Letter Gamma |
| Unicode Number | |
| HTML Code | |
| CSS Code | |
| Entity | γ |
| Plane | 0: Basic Multilingual Plane |
| Unicode Block | Greek and Coptic |
| Unicode Subblock | Letters |
| Uppercase | Γ |
| Unicode Version | 1.1 (1993) |
| Type of paired mirror bracket (bidi) | None |
| Composition Exclusion | No |
| Case change | 03B3 |
| Simple case change | 03B3 |
| Alphabetic | + |
| Lowercase | + |
| Cased | + |
| Changes_When_Uppercased | + |
| Changes_When_Titlecased | + |
| Changes_When_Casemapped | + |
| ID_Start | + |
| ID_Continue | + |
| XID_Start | + |
| XID_Continue | + |
| Grapheme_Base | + |
| scripts | Greek |
| Encoding | hex | dec (bytes) | dec | binary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UTF-8 | CE B3 | 206 179 | 52915 | 11001110 10110011 |
| UTF-16BE | 03 B3 | 3 179 | 947 | 00000011 10110011 |
| UTF-16LE | B3 03 | 179 3 | 45827 | 10110011 00000011 |
| UTF-32BE | 00 00 03 B3 | 0 0 3 179 | 947 | 00000000 00000000 00000011 10110011 |
| UTF-32LE | B3 03 00 00 | 179 3 0 0 | 3003318272 | 10110011 00000011 00000000 00000000 |