Greek Capital Letter Eta
Part of Greek Letters
Greek Capital Letter Eta has no standard Windows Alt code. Copy the character directly, or use its HTML entity or Unicode value instead.
- Alt code
- None
- HTML entity
- Η
- Unicode
- U+0397
About this symbol
Capital eta looks like the Latin H, and with good reason: in early Greek the letter was called heta and stood for an h sound. The Romans borrowed it with that sound, while classical Greek reused it for a long e.
Unicode facts
- Official name
- GREEK CAPITAL LETTER ETA
- Type
- Uppercase letter
- Unicode block
- Greek and Coptic
- Unicode group
- Letters
- Added in
- Unicode 1.1 (1993)
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