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Greek Letters, Symbols and Mathematical Symbols

The following named character entities are defined by HTML 4.0 and XHTML 1.0.

NOTE: Doing Greek and symbols so that Netscape prior to version 6 will display them correctly is problematical depending on what characters. Netscape earlier than version 6 did not understand the complete set of unicode symbols. In this case see the last table on this page. There is a font solution for the most common characters. Even this does not work consistently.

Greek Letters

Lowercase
REFERENCE Symbol Description
α α alpha
β β beta
γ γ gamma
δ δ delta
ε ε epsilon
ζ ζ zeta
η η eta
θ θ theta
ι ι iota
κ κ kappa
λ λ lambda
μ μ mu
ν ν nu
ξ ξ xi
ο ο omicron
π π pi
ρ ρ rho
σ σ sigma
τ τ tau
υ υ upsilon
φ φ phi
χ χ chi
ψ ψ psi
ω ω omega
Capital
REFERENCE Symbol Description
Α Α alpha
Β Β beta
Γ Γ gamma
Δ Δ delta
Ε Ε epsilon
Ζ Ζ zeta
Η Η eta
Θ Θ theta
Ι Ι iota
Κ Κ kappa
Λ Λ lambda
Μ Μ mu
Ν Ν nu
Ξ Ξ xi
Ο Ο omicron
Π Π pi
Ρ Ρ rho
Σ Σ sigma
Τ Τ tau
Υ Υ upsilon
Φ Φ phi
Χ Χ chi
Ψ Ψ psi
Ω Ω omega