Λ
U+039B Λ

GREEK CAPITAL LETTER LAMDA

Lu — Uppercase Letter
Greek
Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP)
923

Encoding Table

This table shows the exact bytes used to represent GREEK CAPITAL LETTER LAMDA 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 9B 206 155 2
UTF-16 LE 9B 03 155 3 2
UTF-16 BE 03 9B 3 155 2
UTF-32 LE 9B 03 00 00 155 3 0 0 4
UTF-32 BE 00 00 03 9B 0 0 3 155 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 A9 131 169 2
EUC-JP A6 AB 166 171 2
GBK A6 AB 166 171 2
Big5 A3 4E 163 78 2

Escape Sequences

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

Λ
Λ
Λ
\39B
\u039B
%CE%9B
\u039b
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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
·
Byte 2
1 0 0 1 1 0 1 1
9B
UTF-8: CE 9B · 2 bytes · Codepoint U+039B

Unicode Properties

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

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