Greek Small Letter Theta
Part of Greek Letters
Greek Small Letter Theta has no standard Windows Alt code. Copy the character directly, or use its HTML entity or Unicode value instead.
- Alt code
- None
- HTML entity
- θ
- Unicode
- U+03B8
About this symbol
Theta comes from teth, a Phoenician letter. In classical Athens it was a symbol of death: probably as the first letter of thanatos, death, and jurors used it on the pieces of pottery that served as ballots when voting for a death sentence.
Today it is the usual letter for an unknown angle in geometry and trigonometry.
Unicode facts
- Official name
- GREEK SMALL LETTER THETA
- Type
- Lowercase letter
- Unicode block
- Greek and Coptic
- Unicode group
- Letters
- Added in
- Unicode 1.1 (1993)
- Related
- ɵ Latin Small Letter Barred O U+0275ѳ Cyrillic Small Letter Fita U+0473
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