Greek Small Letter Eta η
Symbol Meaning
This is the seventh letter of the Greek alphabet. In the Ionic number system, it is 8. It originated from the Phoenician letter Het, and Latin and Cyrillic letters originated from it, such as Н, И, Й. In the Old Slavonic alphabet, this letter corresponded to the letter “izhe”. In modern Greek, it is called Ita and is pronounced not quite as it was in antiquity.
Like many other Greek letters, this one has found wide use in scientific notation. It refers to the enthalpy, refractive index, efficiency, and much more.
The symbol “Greek Small Letter Eta” 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 Eta |
| Unicode Number | |
| HTML Code | |
| CSS Code | |
| Entity | η |
| Plane | 0: Basic Multilingual Plane |
| Unicode Block | Greek and Coptic |
| Unicode Subblock | Letters |
| Uppercase | Η |
| Unicode Version | 1.1 (1993) |
| Type of paired mirror bracket (bidi) | None |
| Composition Exclusion | No |
| Case change | 03B7 |
| Simple case change | 03B7 |
| 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 B7 | 206 183 | 52919 | 11001110 10110111 |
| UTF-16BE | 03 B7 | 3 183 | 951 | 00000011 10110111 |
| UTF-16LE | B7 03 | 183 3 | 46851 | 10110111 00000011 |
| UTF-32BE | 00 00 03 B7 | 0 0 3 183 | 951 | 00000000 00000000 00000011 10110111 |
| UTF-32LE | B7 03 00 00 | 183 3 0 0 | 3070427136 | 10110111 00000011 00000000 00000000 |