U+03BB GREEK SMALL LETTER LAMDA

λ

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Decimal / Nº
955
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+03BB, officially named GREEK SMALL 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 SMALL LETTER LAMBDA.

Categorized technically as a Lowercase 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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955 Copied!
UTF-8 CE BB Copied!
UTF-16 03 BB Copied!
UTF-32 00 00 03 BB Copied!
URL-Quoted %CE%BB Copied!
HTML hex reference λ Copied!
RFC 5137 \u'03BB' Copied!
Bash and Zsh (inside echo -e) \u03BB Copied!
C and C++ \u03bb Copied!
C# \u03bb Copied!
CSS \0003BB Copied!
Excel =UNICHAR(955) Copied!
Go \u03bb Copied!
JavaScript \u03BB Copied!
Modern JavaScript (since ES6) \u{03bb} Copied!
JSON \u03BB Copied!
Java \u03BB Copied!
Lua \u{03BB} Copied!
Matlab char(955) Copied!
Perl \x{03BB} Copied!
PHP \u{03bb} Copied!
PostgreSQL U&'\03BB' Copied!
PowerShell `u{03BB} Copied!
Python \u03bb Copied!
Ruby \u{03bb} Copied!
Rust \u{03bb} Copied!