Greek Capital Letter Upsilon
Part of Greek Letters
Greek Capital Letter Upsilon has no standard Windows Alt code. Copy the character directly, or use its HTML entity or Unicode value instead.
- Alt code
- None
- HTML entity
- Υ
- Unicode
- U+03A5
About this symbol
Capital upsilon is where the Latin Y came from: the Romans borrowed it to write Greek words such as lyra, lyre. Its name means “plain u”.
Unicode facts
- Official name
- GREEK CAPITAL LETTER UPSILON
- Type
- Uppercase letter
- Unicode block
- Greek and Coptic
- Unicode group
- Letters
- Added in
- Unicode 1.1 (1993)
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