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

Symbols and Mathematical Symbols

Number	Sample	Name	Hex	Description
8226	•	bull	2022	bullet
8230	…	hellip	2026	horizontal ellipsis
8242	′	prime	2032	prime
8243	″	Prime	2033	double prime
8254	‾	oline	203E	overline
8260	⁄	frasl	2044	fraction slash
8472	℘	weierp	2118	script capital P
8465	ℑ	image	2111	blackletter capital I
8476	ℜ	real	211C	blackletter capital R
8482	™	trade	2122	trade mark sign
8501	ℵ	alefsym	2135	alef symbol
8592	←	larr	2190	leftwards arrow
8594	→	rarr	2192	rightwards arrow
8595	↓	darr	2193	downwards arrow
8596	↔	harr	2194	left right arrow
8629	↵	crarr	21B5	downwards arrow with corner leftwards
8656	⇐	lArr	21D0	leftwards double arrow
8657	⇑	uArr	21D1	upwards double arrow
8658	⇒	rArr	21D2	rightwards double arrow
8659	⇓	dArr	21D3	downwards double arrow
8660	⇔	hArr	21D4	left right double arrow
8704	∀	forall	2200	for all
8706	∂	part	2202	partial differential
8707	∃	exist	2203	there exists
8709	∅	empty	2205	empty set
8711	∇	nabla	2207	nabla
8712	∈	isin	2208	element of
8713	∉	notin	2209	not an element of
8715	∋	ni	220B	contains as member
8719	∏	prod	220F	n-ary product
8721	∑	sum	2211	n-ary sumation
8722	−	minus	2212	minus sign
8727	∗	lowast	2217	asterisk operator
8730	√	radic	221A	square root
8733	∝	prop	221D	proportional to
8734	∞	infin	221E	infinity
8736	∠	ang	2220	angle
8743	∧	and	2227	logical and
8744	∨	or	2228	logical or
8745	∩	cap	2229	intersection
8746	∪	cup	222A	union
8747	∫	int	222B	integral
8756	∴	there4	2234	therefore
8764	∼	sim	223C	tilde operator
8773	≅	cong	2245	approximately equal to
8776	≈	asymp	2248	almost equal to
8800	≠	ne	2260	not equal to
8801	≡	equiv	2261	identical to
8804	≤	le	2264	less-than or equal to
8805	≥	ge	2265	greater-than or equal to
8834	⊂	sub	2282	subset of
8835	⊃	sup	2283	superset of
8836	⊄	nsub	2284	not a subset of
8838	⊆	sube	2286	subset of or equal to
8839	⊇	supe	2287	superset of or equal to
8853	⊕	oplus	2295	circled plus
8855	⊗	otimes	2297	circled times
8869	⊥	perp	22A5	up tack
8901	⋅	sdot	22C5	dot operator
8968	⌈	lceil	2308	left ceiling
8969	⌉	rceil	2309	right ceiling
8970	⌊	lfloor	230A	left floor
8971	⌋	rfloor	230B	right floor
9001	〈	lang	2329	left-pointing angle bracket
9002	〉	rang	232A	right-pointing angle bracket
9674	◊	loz	25CA	lozenge
9824	♠	spades	2660	black spade suit
9827	♣	clubs	2663	black club suit
9829	♥	hearts	2665	black heart suit
9830	♦	diams	2666	black diamond suit

Greek Letters on Netscape

If you want to make Greek letters that display on Netscape pre version 6, then you have to use some HTML code. Even this does not work consistently. For example, if you want an alpha to appear, then you must type the following in HTML:

ALPHA = a
a

BETA = b
b

delta = d
d

DELTA = D
D

GAMMA = g
g

LAMBDA = l
l

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Greek Letters, Symbols and Mathematical Symbols

Greek Letters

Symbols and Mathematical Symbols

Greek Letters on Netscape

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