Greek Small Letter Gamma γ

γ
U+03B3
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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.

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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

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