γ

Technical information

Symbol	γ
Name	Greek small letter gamma
Unicode number	U+03B3
Category	Greek small letter normal

Description

The Unicode character γ, or U+03B3, is known as the "Greek Small Letter Gamma". It falls under the "Greek and Coptic" block and the "Letter, Lowercase" category in the Unicode standard. Gamma is the third letter of the Greek alphabet. In the system of Greek numerals, it has a value of 3. It is pronounced as "gamma" in English. In physics, the lowercase gamma is often used to represent a photon, the elementary particle of light and other electromagnetic radiation. In mathematics, it's frequently used to denote the Gamma function, a generalization of the factorial function to complex numbers.

Encoding

HTML Entity	γ
HTML Entity (hex)	γ
HTML Entity (named)	γ
URL Escape Code	%CE%B3
UTF-8 (hex)	0xCE 0xB3
UTF-8 (binary)	11001110:10110011
UTF-16	0x03B3
UTF-32	0x000003B3

Source Code

C, C++, and Java	"\u03B3"
CSS Code	\03B3
JavaScript	"\u03B3"
Perl	\x{03B3}
Python 2	u"\u03B3"
Python 3	\u03B3
Ruby	\u{03B3}

Preview

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

CSS Property: font-weight

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HTML Forms and Input

input

disabled input

input-group

select

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Code examples in HTML and CSS

<span>&#947;</span>

span {
    content: "\03B3";
}

The symbol in different fonts

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