List of Greek letters

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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 has a 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.

Letters contained in the modern Greek alphabet

Greek alphabet
Αα	Ββ	Γγ	Δδ	Εε	Ζζ	Ηη	Θθ	Ιι	Κκ	Λλ	Μμ	Νν	Ξξ	Οο	Ππ	Ρρ	Σσς	Ττ	Υυ	Φφ	Χχ	Ψψ	Ωω

Extensions


Letter	Name	Notes
Ͱͱ	Heta	Archaic letter for voiceless glottal fricative
Ͳͳ	Archaic Sampi	Archaic sibilant letter
Ϝϝ	Digamma	Archaic letter for /w/
Ͷͷ	Tsan	Pamphylian letter for /w/; alleged sibilant in Arcado-Cypriot
Ϻϻ	San	Archaic letter for /s/
Ϸϸ	Sho	Bactrian letter for /ʃ/
Ϙϙ	Archaic Koppa	Letter for /k/ before Ο, Υ, and Ω
Ϛϛ	Stigma	Archaic ligature for στ, retained in iconography
Ϳϳ	Yot	Greek linguistics letter for /j/
Ϗϗ	Kai	Ligature abbreviating the word kai

Letters with diacritics

The letters with diacritics below are those which do not denote the typical phonemes described with the standard Greek diacritics (archaic or otherwise).


Letter	Name	Notes
Ζ̌ζ̌	Zeta with caron	Nonstandard letter for Cypriot Greek representing /ʒ/
Κ̌κ̌	Kappa with caron	Nonstandard letter for Cypriot Greek representing /c/ and /t͡ʃ/
Λ̌λ̌	Lambda with caron	Nonstandard letter for Cypriot Greek representing /ʎ/
Ν̌ν̌	Nu with caron	Nonstandard letter for Cypriot Greek representing /ɲ/
Ξ̌ξ̌	Xi with caron	Nonstandard letter for Cypriot Greek representing /kʃ/
Π̌π̌	Pi with caron	Nonstandard letter for Cypriot Greek representing /pʲ/
ῤ	Rho with smooth breathing	Archaic letter denoting /r/
Ῥῥ	Rho with rough breathing	Archaic letter denoting /r̥/
Σ̌σ̌ς̌	Sigma with caron	Nonstandard letter for Cypriot Greek representing /ʃ/
Τ̌τ̌	Tau with caron	Nonstandard letter for Cypriot Greek representing /c/
Ψ̌ψ̌	Psi with caron	Nonstandard letter for Cypriot Greek representing /pʃ/

Other characters

Other Greek characters are omitted from the tables above:

Subscript modifier letters β, γ, ρ, φ, and χ: ᵦ ᵧ ᵨ ᵩ ᵪ
Superscript modifier letters β, γ, δ, θ, φ, and χ: ᵝ ᵞ ᵟ ᶿ ᵠ ᵡ
Small capitals Γ, Λ, Π, Ρ, Ψ, and Ω: ᴦ ᴧ ᴨ ᴩ ᴪ ꭥ
Glyph variants for β, ε, Θ, θ, κ, ρ, Σ, σ/ς, π, Υ, Ύ, Ϋ, φ: ϐ ϵ ϴ ϑ ϰ ϱ Ϲ ϲ ϖ ϒ ϓ ϔ ϕ
OU ligature which is used in Greek but encoded as a Latin letter: Ȣȣ

Footnotes

↑ Nicholas, Nick (2005-01-01). "Proposal to add Greek Letter Lowercase Heta and Greek Letter Capital Heta to the UCS" (PDF).
1 2 Nicholas, Nick (2005-01-01). "Proposal to add Greek epigraphical letters to the UCS" (PDF).
↑ "Proposal to encode the Greek Capital Letter San and Greek Small Letter San in the UCS" (PDF). 2002-11-07.
↑ Everson, Michael (2002-01-30). "Proposal to add two Greek letters for Bactrian to the UCS" (PDF).
1 2 Nicholas, Nick (2005-05-23). "Other Ligatures".
↑ Nick Nicholas, "Yot" Deprecated link archived 2012-08-05 at archive.today
↑ Nicholas, Nick (2005-04-09). "Ligatures".
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Themistocleous, Charalambos; Katsoyannou, Marianna; Armosti, Spyros; Christodoulou, Kyriaki. "Cypriot Greek Lexicography: A Reverse Dictionary of Cypriot Greek" (PDF).
1 2 Nicholas, Nick (2003-05-26). "Greek & Greek Extended".
↑ Thompson, Edward M. (1911). An introduction to Greek and Latin palaeography. Oxford: Clarendon. pp. 186–194.