Λ Greek Capital Letter Lambda

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Greek · Letters · MathU+039B · Greek and Coptic
Λ

Greek Capital Letter Lambda

U+039B · decimal 923 · Greek and Coptic

Every way to write it

7 forms
HTML entity

Λ

A named entity — readable, and safe in any HTML document without declaring a charset.

HTML numeric

Λ

The numeric form works everywhere a named one does, and exists for every character.

CSS content

\039B

For a content property in a ::before or ::after rule. No semicolon, and mind the trailing space.

JavaScript

\u039B

Valid in a JavaScript or JSON string literal, so it survives files and pipelines that are not UTF-8 clean.

Python

\u039B

The escape for a Python string literal.

URL

%CE%9B

Percent-encoded UTF-8, for a query string or a path segment.

UTF-8 bytes

CE 9B

2 bytes on the wire. Seeing these as separate garbled characters means something decoded them as single-byte text.

Typing it without copying

system picker
macOS

Control + Command + Space, then search greek capital letter lambda

Windows

Character Map or Alt + 923

Groups it belongs to

Characters near it

8
Code pointU+039B
EntityNamed
UTF-82 bytes
ASCIINo