Greek Small Letter Lamda λ
Symbol Meaning
Lambda — the 11th letter of the Greek alphabet (also used in Coptic). In the Ionian number system matched, it meant 30. It originated from the Phoenician letter Lamd. Numerous letters originated from the lamd itself, such as L or Л.
A lowercase lambda is widely used in scientific notation. Lambda denotes the wavelength, the decay constant, the specific heat of melting, the charge density, and many other variables. λ-probe — a sensor of residual oxygen in exhaust gases. λ-phage is the name of one of the bacteriophages.
The symbol “Greek Small Letter Lamda” is included in the “Letters” subblock of the “Greek and Coptic” block and was approved as part of Unicode version 1.1 in 1993.
Synonyms
lambda.
| Unicode Name | Greek Small Letter Lamda |
| Unicode Number | |
| HTML Code | |
| CSS Code | |
| Entity | λ |
| Plane | 0: Basic Multilingual Plane |
| Unicode Block | Greek and Coptic |
| Unicode Subblock | Letters |
| Uppercase | Λ |
| Unicode Version | 1.1 (1993) |
| Type of paired mirror bracket (bidi) | None |
| Composition Exclusion | No |
| Case change | 03BB |
| Simple case change | 03BB |
| 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 BB | 206 187 | 52923 | 11001110 10111011 |
| UTF-16BE | 03 BB | 3 187 | 955 | 00000011 10111011 |
| UTF-16LE | BB 03 | 187 3 | 47875 | 10111011 00000011 |
| UTF-32BE | 00 00 03 BB | 0 0 3 187 | 955 | 00000000 00000000 00000011 10111011 |
| UTF-32LE | BB 03 00 00 | 187 3 0 0 | 3137536000 | 10111011 00000011 00000000 00000000 |