ζ
U+03B6 ζ

GREEK SMALL LETTER ZETA

Ll — Lowercase Letter
Greek
Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP)
950

Encoding Table

This table shows the exact bytes used to represent GREEK SMALL 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 B6 206 182 2
UTF-16 LE B6 03 182 3 2
UTF-16 BE 03 B6 3 182 2
UTF-32 LE B6 03 00 00 182 3 0 0 4
UTF-32 BE 00 00 03 B6 0 0 3 182 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 C4 131 196 2
EUC-JP A6 C6 166 198 2
GBK A6 C6 166 198 2
Big5 A3 61 163 97 2

Escape Sequences

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

ζ
ζ
ζ
\3B6
\u03B6
%CE%B6
\u03b6
950

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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 1 0
B6
UTF-8: CE B6 · 2 bytes · Codepoint U+03B6

Unicode Properties

Introduced in Unicode 1.1
L — Left-to-Right
Uppercase: U+0396 GREEK CAPITAL LETTER ZETA
Titlecase: U+0396 GREEK CAPITAL LETTER ZETA

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