U+039B GREEK CAPITAL LETTER LAMDA

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Decimal / Nº
923
General Category
Block
Script
Bidi Category
Left-To-Right
East Asian Width
ambiguous
Combining Class
Not Reordered
Decomposition
not a composition

Character Details

The Unicode character U+039B, officially named GREEK CAPITAL LETTER LAMDA, was introduced in Unicode version 1.1. It is part of the Greek block, which belongs to the Basic Multilingual plane. Previously, it was also referred to as GREEK CAPITAL LETTER LAMBDA.

Categorized technically as a Uppercase Letter, this character typically falls under the Greek script. In terms of text layout and rendering, the glyph is not a composition and has ambiguous in East Asian typography. When placed in bidirectional text, it behaves as an Left-To-Right character. Its visual representation remains not mirrored regardless of the reading direction.

Representations & Encodings

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923 Copied!
UTF-8 CE 9B Copied!
UTF-16 03 9B Copied!
UTF-32 00 00 03 9B Copied!
URL-Quoted %CE%9B Copied!
HTML hex reference Λ Copied!
RFC 5137 \u'039B' Copied!
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C and C++ \u039b Copied!
C# \u039b Copied!
CSS \00039B Copied!
Excel =UNICHAR(923) Copied!
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JavaScript \u039B Copied!
Modern JavaScript (since ES6) \u{039b} Copied!
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Matlab char(923) Copied!
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