Greek Capital Letter Lamda
Part of Greek Letters
Greek Capital Letter Lamda has no standard Windows Alt code. Copy the character directly, or use its HTML entity or Unicode value instead.
- Alt code
- None
- HTML entity
- Λ
- Unicode
- U+039B
About this symbol
Capital lambda, Λ, is said to have been painted on the shields of Spartan soldiers, for Lacedaemon, the name of their state. In physics it is the cosmological constant in Albert Einstein’s equations for the universe.
Unicode facts
- Official name
- GREEK CAPITAL LETTER LAMDA
- Type
- Uppercase letter
- Unicode block
- Greek and Coptic
- Unicode group
- Letters
- Added in
- Unicode 1.1 (1993)
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