Greek Small Letter Eta
Part of Greek Letters
Greek Small 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+03B7
About this symbol
Eta comes from the Phoenician letter heth. In ancient Greek it was a long e, but in modern Greek it sounds like the ee in see. Engineers use η for efficiency, the share of energy a machine turns into useful work.
Unicode facts
- Official name
- GREEK SMALL LETTER ETA
- Type
- Lowercase letter
- Unicode block
- Greek and Coptic
- Unicode group
- Letters
- Added in
- Unicode 1.1 (1993)
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