Greek and Coptic is the Unicode block for representing modern (monotonic) Greek. It was originally used for writing Coptic, using the similar Greek letters, in addition to the uniquely Coptic additions. Beginning with version 4.1 of the Unicode Standard, a separate Coptic block has been included in Unicode, allowing for mixed Greek/Coptic text that is stylistically contrastive, as is convention in scholarly works. Writing polytonic Greek requires the use of combining characters or the precomposed vowel + tone characters in the Greek Extended character block.

The Greek alphabet is the script that has been used to write the Greek language since the 8th century BC. It was derived from the earlier Phoenician alphabet, and was the first alphabetic script to have distinct letters for vowels as well as consonants. As such, it became the ancestor of numerous other European and Middle Eastern alphabets, including Latin and Cyrillic. Apart from its use in writing the Greek language, both in its ancient and its modern forms, the Greek alphabet today also serves as a source of technical symbols and labels in many domains of mathematics, science and other fields.

In its classical and modern forms, the alphabet has 24 letters, ordered from alpha to omega. Like and Cyrillic0400–04FF , Greek originally had only a single form of each letter; it developed the letter case distinction between upper-case and lower-case forms in parallel with Latin during the modern era.

Sound values and conventional transcriptions for some of the letters differ between Ancient Greek and Modern Greek usage, owing to phonological changes in the language.

In traditional (“polytonic”) Greek orthography, vowel letters can be combined with several diacritics, including accent marks, so-called “breathing” marks, and the iota subscript. In common present-day usage for Modern Greek since the 1980s, this system has been simplified to a so-called “monotonic” convention

The Coptic alphabet is the script used for writing the Coptic language. The repertoire of glyphs is based on the Greek alphabet augmented by letters borrowed from the Egyptian Demotic and is the first alphabetic script used for the Egyptian language. There are several Alphabets, as the Coptic writing system may vary greatly among the various dialects and subdialects of the Coptic language.

Properties

Range 0370–03FF
Characters 144

List of Characters

  • Archaic letters

  • Ͱ
    Greek Capital Letter Heta
  • ͱ
    Greek Small Letter Heta
  • Ͳ
    Greek Capital Letter Archaic Sampi
  • ͳ
    Greek Small Letter Archaic Sampi
  • Numeral signs

  • ʹ
    Greek Numeral Sign
  • ͵
    Greek Lower Numeral Sign
  • Archaic letters

  • Ͷ
    Greek Capital Letter Pamphylian Digamma
  • ͷ
    Greek Small Letter Pamphylian Digamma
  • Not defined
  • Not defined
  • Iota subscript

  • ͺ
    Greek Ypogegrammeni
  • Lowercase of editorial symbols

  • ͻ
    Greek Small Reversed Lunate Sigma Symbol
  • ͼ
    Greek Small Dotted Lunate Sigma Symbol
  • ͽ
    Greek Small Reversed Dotted Lunate Sigma Symbol
  • Punctuation

  • ;
    Greek Question Mark
  • Additional letter

  • Ϳ
    Greek Capital Letter Yot
  • Not defined
  • Not defined
  • Not defined
  • Not defined
  • Spacing accent marks

  • ΄
    Greek Tonos
  • ΅
    Greek Dialytika Tonos
  • Letter

  • Ά
    Greek Capital Letter Alpha with Tonos
  • Punctuation

  • ·
    Greek Ano Teleia
  • Letters

  • Έ
    Greek Capital Letter Epsilon with Tonos
  • Ή
    Greek Capital Letter Eta with Tonos
  • Ί
    Greek Capital Letter Iota with Tonos
  • Not defined
  • Ό
    Greek Capital Letter Omicron with Tonos
  • Not defined
  • Ύ
    Greek Capital Letter Upsilon with Tonos
  • Ώ
    Greek Capital Letter Omega with Tonos
  • ΐ
    Greek Small Letter Iota with Dialytika and Tonos
  • Α
    Greek Capital Letter Alpha
  • Β
    Greek Capital Letter Beta
  • Γ
    Greek Capital Letter Gamma
  • Δ
    Greek Capital Letter Delta
  • Ε
    Greek Capital Letter Epsilon
  • Ζ
    Greek Capital Letter Zeta
  • Η
    Greek Capital Letter Eta
  • Θ
    Greek Capital Letter Theta
  • Ι
    Greek Capital Letter Iota
  • Κ
    Greek Capital Letter Kappa
  • Λ
    Greek Capital Letter Lamda
  • Μ
    Greek Capital Letter Mu
  • Ν
    Greek Capital Letter Nu
  • Ξ
    Greek Capital Letter Xi
  • Ο
    Greek Capital Letter Omicron
  • Π
    Greek Capital Letter Pi
  • Ρ
    Greek Capital Letter Rho
  • Not defined
  • Σ
    Greek Capital Letter Sigma
  • Τ
    Greek Capital Letter Tau
  • Υ
    Greek Capital Letter Upsilon
  • Φ
    Greek Capital Letter Phi
  • Χ
    Greek Capital Letter Chi
  • Ψ
    Greek Capital Letter Psi
  • Ω
    Greek Capital Letter Omega
  • Ϊ
    Greek Capital Letter Iota with Dialytika
  • Ϋ
    Greek Capital Letter Upsilon with Dialytika
  • ά
    Greek Small Letter Alpha with Tonos
  • έ
    Greek Small Letter Epsilon with Tonos
  • ή
    Greek Small Letter Eta with Tonos
  • ί
    Greek Small Letter Iota with Tonos
  • ΰ
    Greek Small Letter Upsilon with Dialytika and Tonos
  • α
    Greek Small Letter Alpha
  • β
    Greek Small Letter Beta
  • γ
    Greek Small Letter Gamma
  • δ
    Greek Small Letter Delta
  • ε
    Greek Small Letter Epsilon
  • ζ
    Greek Small Letter Zeta
  • η
    Greek Small Letter Eta
  • θ
    Greek Small Letter Theta
  • ι
    Greek Small Letter Iota
  • κ
    Greek Small Letter Kappa
  • λ
    Greek Small Letter Lamda
  • μ
    Greek Small Letter Mu
  • ν
    Greek Small Letter Nu
  • ξ
    Greek Small Letter Xi
  • ο
    Greek Small Letter Omicron
  • π
    Greek Small Letter Pi
  • ρ
    Greek Small Letter Rho
  • ς
    Greek Small Letter Final Sigma
  • σ
    Greek Small Letter Sigma
  • τ
    Greek Small Letter Tau
  • υ
    Greek Small Letter Upsilon
  • φ
    Greek Small Letter Phi
  • χ
    Greek Small Letter Chi
  • ψ
    Greek Small Letter Psi
  • ω
    Greek Small Letter Omega
  • ϊ
    Greek Small Letter Iota with Dialytika
  • ϋ
    Greek Small Letter Upsilon with Dialytika
  • ό
    Greek Small Letter Omicron with Tonos
  • ύ
    Greek Small Letter Upsilon with Tonos
  • ώ
    Greek Small Letter Omega with Tonos
  • Variant letterforms

  • Ϗ
    Greek Capital Kai Symbol
  • ϐ
    Greek Beta Symbol
  • ϑ
    Greek Theta Symbol
  • ϒ
    Greek Upsilon with Hook Symbol
  • ϓ
    Greek Upsilon with Acute and Hook Symbol
  • ϔ
    Greek Upsilon with Diaeresis and Hook Symbol
  • ϕ
    Greek Phi Symbol
  • ϖ
    Greek Pi Symbol
  • ϗ
    Greek Kai Symbol
  • Archaic letters

  • Ϙ
    Greek Letter Archaic Koppa
  • ϙ
    Greek Small Letter Archaic Koppa
  • Ϛ
    Greek Letter Stigma
  • ϛ
    Greek Small Letter Stigma
  • Ϝ
    Greek Letter Digamma
  • ϝ
    Greek Small Letter Digamma
  • Ϟ
    Greek Letter Koppa
  • ϟ
    Greek Small Letter Koppa
  • Ϡ
    Greek Letter Sampi
  • ϡ
    Greek Small Letter Sampi
  • Coptic letters derived from Demotic

  • Ϣ
    Coptic Capital Letter Shei
  • ϣ
    Coptic Small Letter Shei
  • Ϥ
    Coptic Capital Letter Fei
  • ϥ
    Coptic Small Letter Fei
  • Ϧ
    Coptic Capital Letter Khei
  • ϧ
    Coptic Small Letter Khei
  • Ϩ
    Coptic Capital Letter Hori
  • ϩ
    Coptic Small Letter Hori
  • Ϫ
    Coptic Capital Letter Gangia
  • ϫ
    Coptic Small Letter Gangia
  • Ϭ
    Coptic Capital Letter Shima
  • ϭ
    Coptic Small Letter Shima
  • Ϯ
    Coptic Capital Letter Dei
  • ϯ
    Coptic Small Letter Dei
  • Variant letterforms

  • ϰ
    Greek Kappa Symbol
  • ϱ
    Greek Rho Symbol
  • ϲ
    Greek Lunate Sigma Symbol
  • Additional letter

  • ϳ
    Greek Letter Yot
  • Variant letterforms and symbols

  • ϴ
    Greek Capital Theta Symbol
  • ϵ
    Greek Lunate Epsilon Symbol
  • ϶
    Greek Reversed Lunate Epsilon Symbol
  • Additional archaic letters for Bactrian

  • Ϸ
    Greek Capital Letter Sho
  • ϸ
    Greek Small Letter Sho
  • Variant letterform

  • Ϲ
    Greek Capital Lunate Sigma Symbol
  • Archaic letters

  • Ϻ
    Greek Capital Letter San
  • ϻ
    Greek Small Letter San
  • Symbol

  • ϼ
    Greek Rho with Stroke Symbol
  • Editorial symbols

  • Ͻ
    Greek Capital Reversed Lunate Sigma Symbol
  • Ͼ
    Greek Capital Dotted Lunate Sigma Symbol
  • Ͽ
    Greek Capital Reversed Dotted Lunate Sigma Symbol

Table of Characters

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