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U+0397 Η

GREEK CAPITAL LETTER ETA

Lu — Uppercase Letter
Greek
Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP)
919

Encoding Table

This table shows the exact bytes used to represent GREEK CAPITAL LETTER ETA in each encoding. Unicode encodings (UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32) support every character; legacy encodings only cover a limited character set and show "not supported" when a character falls outside their range.

Encoding Bytes (Hex) Bytes (Decimal) Byte count
UTF-8 CE 97 206 151 2
UTF-16 LE 97 03 151 3 2
UTF-16 BE 03 97 3 151 2
UTF-32 LE 97 03 00 00 151 3 0 0 4
UTF-32 BE 00 00 03 97 0 0 3 151 4
ASCII not supported
Latin-1 (ISO-8859-1) not supported
Windows-1252 not supported
ISO-8859-2 (Latin-2) not supported
ISO-8859-5 (Cyrillic) not supported
KOI8-R not supported
Shift-JIS 83 A5 131 165 2
EUC-JP A6 A7 166 167 2
GBK A6 A7 166 167 2
Big5 A3 4A 163 74 2

Escape Sequences

How to reference this character in source code, markup, and URLs.

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\397
\u0397
%CE%97
\u0397
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UTF-8 Binary Breakdown

UTF-8 encodes this character as 2 bytes. The leading 110 prefix on byte 1 signals a 2-byte sequence. Bytes 2+ begin with 10 to mark them as continuation bytes.

Byte 1
1 1 0 0 1 1 1 0
CE
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Byte 2
1 0 0 1 0 1 1 1
97
UTF-8: CE 97 · 2 bytes · Codepoint U+0397

Unicode Properties

Introduced in Unicode 1.1
L — Left-to-Right
Lowercase: U+03B7 GREEK SMALL LETTER ETA

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