μ

Technical information

Symbolμ
NameGreek small letter mu
Unicode numberU+03BC
CategoryGreek small letter normal
DescriptionThe Unicode character μ, or U+03BC, is known as the "Greek Small Letter Mu." It belongs to the "Greek and Coptic" block and falls under the "Letter, Lowercase" category in the Unicode standard. In scientific and mathematical contexts, the mu character is commonly used to represent the micro- prefix in metric units, denoting one-millionth of the unit. For example, μm stands for micrometer. It's also used to denote the muon in particle physics, the coefficient of friction in physics, and the population mean in statistics, among other uses. This character is widely used across various fields, including mathematics, physics, engineering, and computing.

Encoding

HTML Entityμ
HTML Entity (hex)μ
HTML Entity (named)μ
URL Escape Code%CE%BC
UTF-8 (hex)0xCE 0xBC
UTF-8 (binary)11001110:10111100
UTF-160x03BC
UTF-320x000003BC

Source Code

C, C++, and Java"\u03BC"
CSS Code\03BC
JavaScript"\u03BC"
Perl\x{03BC}
Python 2u"\u03BC"
Python 3\u03BC
Ruby\u{03BC}

Preview

This Unicode character looks like this μ in sentence and in bold like this μ and in italic like this μ.

Font size:

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20px
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28px
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36px
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48px
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72px

CSS Property: font-weight

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HTML Forms and Input

input
disabled input
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input-group
select
button
button

Code examples in HTML and CSS

<span>&#956;</span>

            
span {
    content: "\03BC";
}

The symbol in different fonts

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-apple-system
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Apple Color Emoji
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Arial
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BlinkMacSystemFont
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Courier New
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Georgia
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Droid Sans
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Helvetica
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Noto Sans
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Oxygen
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Roboto
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"Segoe UI"
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sans-serif
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Segoe UI Emoji
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Segoe UI Symbol
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system-ui
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Times New Roman
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Ubuntu
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Verdana

References