Greek Small Letter Upsilon
Part of Greek Letters
Greek Small Letter Upsilon has no standard Windows Alt code. Copy the character directly, or use its HTML entity or Unicode value instead.
- Alt code
- None
- HTML entity
- υ
- Unicode
- U+03C5
About this symbol
Small upsilon was called the letter of Pythagoras: its fork was said to show the choice in life between the narrow path of virtue and the broad road of vice. Renaissance writers and artists took the idea up and called it the Pythagorean Y.
Unicode facts
- Official name
- GREEK SMALL LETTER UPSILON
- Type
- Lowercase letter
- Unicode block
- Greek and Coptic
- Unicode group
- Letters
- Added in
- Unicode 1.1 (1993)
- Related
- ʊ Latin Small Letter Upsilon U+028Aʋ Latin Small Letter V With Hook U+028B
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