Greek Capital Letter Zeta
Part of Greek Letters
Greek Capital Letter Zeta has no standard Windows Alt code. Copy the character directly, or use its HTML entity or Unicode value instead.
- Alt code
- None
- HTML entity
- Ζ
- Unicode
- U+0396
About this symbol
Capital zeta is the ancestor of the Latin Z. The Romans dropped Z for a while and later brought it back from Greek for Greek words, which is why it sits at the end of the alphabet, after the letters they had already ordered.
Unicode facts
- Official name
- GREEK CAPITAL LETTER ZETA
- Type
- Uppercase letter
- Unicode block
- Greek and Coptic
- Unicode group
- Letters
- Added in
- Unicode 1.1 (1993)
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