Greek Small Letter Epsilon
Part of Greek Letters
On Windows, hold Alt and type 238 on the numeric keypad to insert greek small letter epsilon.
- Alt code
- Alt+238
- HTML entity
- ε
- Unicode
- U+03B5
About this symbol
The name epsilon means “plain e”, from Byzantine Greek, used to tell it apart from the letter ai, which had come to sound the same. In maths ε stands for an arbitrarily small positive amount, as in the classic opening of a proof about limits: “for every ε > 0”.
Unicode facts
- Official name
- GREEK SMALL LETTER EPSILON
- Type
- Lowercase letter
- Unicode block
- Greek and Coptic
- Unicode group
- Letters
- Added in
- Unicode 1.1 (1993)
- Related
- ɛ Latin Small Letter Open E U+025B
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