Greek Capital Letter Heta
Part of Greek Letters
Greek Capital Letter Heta has no standard Windows Alt code. Copy the character directly, or use its HTML entity or Unicode value instead.
- Alt code
- None
- HTML entity
- Ͱ
- Unicode
- U+0370
About this symbol
Heta, shaped like half an H, was used in some Greek colonies in southern Italy, such as Heraclea and Taras, the modern Taranto, to write the h sound. Elsewhere the full letter Η had become eta, a vowel, and h had no letter of its own.
Unicode facts
- Official name
- GREEK CAPITAL LETTER HETA
- Type
- Uppercase letter
- Unicode block
- Greek and Coptic
- Unicode group
- Archaic letters
- Added in
- Unicode 5.1 (2008)
- Related
- Ⱶ Latin Capital Letter Half H U+2C75
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