μ

Technical information

Symbol	μ
Name	Greek small letter mu
Unicode number	U+03BC
Category	Greek small letter normal

Description

The Unicode character μ, or U+03BC, is known as the "Greek Small Letter Mu." It belongs to the "Greek and Coptic" block and falls under the "Letter, Lowercase" category in the Unicode standard. In scientific and mathematical contexts, the mu character is commonly used to represent the micro- prefix in metric units, denoting one-millionth of the unit. For example, μm stands for micrometer. It's also used to denote the muon in particle physics, the coefficient of friction in physics, and the population mean in statistics, among other uses. This character is widely used across various fields, including mathematics, physics, engineering, and computing.

Encoding

HTML Entity	μ
HTML Entity (hex)	μ
HTML Entity (named)	μ
URL Escape Code	%CE%BC
UTF-8 (hex)	0xCE 0xBC
UTF-8 (binary)	11001110:10111100
UTF-16	0x03BC
UTF-32	0x000003BC

Source Code

C, C++, and Java	"\u03BC"
CSS Code	\03BC
JavaScript	"\u03BC"
Perl	\x{03BC}
Python 2	u"\u03BC"
Python 3	\u03BC
Ruby	\u{03BC}

Preview

This Unicode character looks like this μ in sentence and in bold like this μ and in italic like this μ.

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HTML Forms and Input

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Code examples in HTML and CSS

<span>&#956;</span>

span {
    content: "\03BC";
}

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