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Mu (/ ˈ m (j) uː /; [1] [2] uppercase Μ, lowercase μ; Ancient Greek μῦ, Greek: μι or μυ—both ) is the twelfth letter of the Greek alphabet, representing the voiced bilabial nasal IPA:. In the system of Greek numerals it has a value of 40. [ 3 ]
Micro (Greek letter μ, mu, non-italic) is a unit prefix in the metric system denoting a factor of 10 −6 (one millionth). [1] It comes from the Greek word μικρός (mikrós), meaning "small". [2] It is the only SI prefix which uses a character not from the Latin alphabet.
Greek letters are used in mathematics, science, engineering, and other areas where mathematical notation is used as symbols for constants, special functions, and also conventionally for variables representing certain quantities. In these contexts, the capital letters and the small letters represent distinct and unrelated entities.
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]
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.
A fullwidth version of the "microgram" symbol is encoded by Unicode at code point U+338D ㎍ SQUARE MU G for use in CJK contexts. [3] In other contexts, a sequence of the Greek letter mu (U+03BC) and Latin letter g (U+0067) should be used.
Mu: Ωω: Omega: History ... For example, the monotonic "Greek small letter alpha with tónos" is at U+03AC, while the polytonic "Greek small letter alpha with oxeîa ...
encodings of greek nu and coptic ni. [3] u+039d Ν greek capital letter nu (ν) u+03bd ν greek small letter nu (ν) (\nu in tex) u+2c9a Ⲛ coptic capital letter ni; u+2c9b ⲛ coptic small letter ni; u+1d6b4 횴 mathematical bold capital nu [a] u+1d6ce 훎 mathematical bold small nu; u+1d6ee 훮 mathematical italic capital nu; u+1d708 휈 ...