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This is a list of letters of the Greek alphabet. The definition of a Greek letter for this list is a character encoded in the Unicode standard that a has script property of "Greek" and the general category of "Letter". An overview of the distribution of Greek letters is given in Greek script in Unicode.
The following is a Unicode collation algorithm list of Greek characters and those Greek-derived characters that are sorted alongside them. [2] [3] [4] Most of the characters of the blocks listed above are included, except for the Ancient Greek Numbers, Ancient Symbols and Ancient Greek Musical Notation.
2. ^ Grey areas indicate non-assigned code points Template documentation [ view ] [ edit ] [ history ] [ purge ] {{ Unicode chart Symbols and Pictographs Extended-A }} provides a list of Unicode code points in the Symbols and Pictographs Extended-A block.
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The Greek alphabet has been used to write the Greek language since the late 9th or early 8th century BC. [2] [3] It was derived from the earlier Phoenician alphabet, [4] and is the earliest known alphabetic script to have developed distinct letters for vowels as well as consonants. [5]
The OpenType font format has the feature tag "mgrk" ("Mathematical Greek") to identify a glyph as representing a Greek letter to be used in mathematical (as opposed to Greek language) contexts. The table below shows a comparison of Greek letters rendered in TeX and HTML. The font used in the TeX rendering is an italic style.
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2. ^ Grey areas indicate non-assigned code points Template documentation [ view ] [ edit ] [ history ] [ purge ] {{ Unicode chart Greek Extended }} provides a list of Unicode code points in the Greek Extended block.