ε
U+03B5 ε

GREEK SMALL LETTER EPSILON

Ll — Lowercase Letter
Greek
Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP)
949

Encoding Table

This table shows the exact bytes used to represent GREEK SMALL LETTER EPSILON 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 B5 206 181 2
UTF-16 LE B5 03 181 3 2
UTF-16 BE 03 B5 3 181 2
UTF-32 LE B5 03 00 00 181 3 0 0 4
UTF-32 BE 00 00 03 B5 0 0 3 181 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 C3 131 195 2
EUC-JP A6 C5 166 197 2
GBK A6 C5 166 197 2
Big5 A3 60 163 96 2

Escape Sequences

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

ε
ε
ε
\3B5
\u03B5
%CE%B5
\u03b5
949

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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 1 1 0 1 0 1
B5
UTF-8: CE B5 · 2 bytes · Codepoint U+03B5

Unicode Properties

Introduced in Unicode 1.1
L — Left-to-Right
Uppercase: U+0395 GREEK CAPITAL LETTER EPSILON
Titlecase: U+0395 GREEK CAPITAL LETTER EPSILON

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