U+03BC GREEK SMALL LETTER MU

μ

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Decimal / Nº
956
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+03BC, officially named GREEK SMALL LETTER MU, was introduced in Unicode version 1.1. It is part of the Greek block, which belongs to the Basic Multilingual plane.

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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956 Copied!
UTF-8 CE BC Copied!
UTF-16 03 BC Copied!
UTF-32 00 00 03 BC Copied!
URL-Quoted %CE%BC Copied!
HTML hex reference μ Copied!
RFC 5137 \u'03BC' Copied!
Bash and Zsh (inside echo -e) \u03BC Copied!
C and C++ \u03bc Copied!
C# \u03bc Copied!
CSS \0003BC Copied!
Excel =UNICHAR(956) Copied!
Go \u03bc Copied!
JavaScript \u03BC Copied!
Modern JavaScript (since ES6) \u{03bc} Copied!
JSON \u03BC Copied!
Java \u03BC Copied!
Lua \u{03BC} Copied!
Matlab char(956) Copied!
Perl \x{03BC} Copied!
PHP \u{03bc} Copied!
PostgreSQL U&'\03BC' Copied!
PowerShell `u{03BC} Copied!
Python \u03bc Copied!
Ruby \u{03bc} Copied!
Rust \u{03bc} Copied!