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U+0396 Ζ

GREEK CAPITAL LETTER ZETA

Lu — Uppercase Letter
Greek
Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP)
918

Encoding Table

This table shows the exact bytes used to represent GREEK CAPITAL LETTER ZETA 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 96 206 150 2
UTF-16 LE 96 03 150 3 2
UTF-16 BE 03 96 3 150 2
UTF-32 LE 96 03 00 00 150 3 0 0 4
UTF-32 BE 00 00 03 96 0 0 3 150 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 A4 131 164 2
EUC-JP A6 A6 166 166 2
GBK A6 A6 166 166 2
Big5 A3 49 163 73 2

Escape Sequences

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

Ζ
Ζ
Ζ
\396
\u0396
%CE%96
\u0396
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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 0 1 1 0
96
UTF-8: CE 96 · 2 bytes · Codepoint U+0396

Unicode Properties

Introduced in Unicode 1.1
L — Left-to-Right
Lowercase: U+03B6 GREEK SMALL LETTER ZETA

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