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A number of Greek letters, variants, digits, and other symbols are supported by the
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character encoding standard.


Blocks

As of version of the Unicode Standard, 518 characters in the following blocks are classified as belonging to the Greek script:UAX 24: Script data file
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Greek and Coptic Greek and Coptic is the Unicode block for representing modern (monotonic) Greek. It was originally also used for writing Coptic, using the similar Greek letters in addition to the uniquely Coptic additions. Beginning with version 4.1 of the Un ...

U+0370–U+03FF
(117 characters) *
Phonetic Extensions Phonetic Extensions is a Unicode block containing phonetic characters used in the Uralic Phonetic Alphabet, Old Irish phonetic notation, the ''Oxford English Dictionary'' and American dictionaries, and Americanist and Russianist phonetic notat ...

U+1D00–U+1D7F
(15 characters) *
Phonetic Extensions Supplement Phonetic Extensions Supplement is a Unicode block containing characters for specialized and deprecated forms of the International Phonetic Alphabet The International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) is an alphabetic system of phonetic notation based ...

U+1D80–U+1DBF
(1 character: ) * Greek Extended
U+1F00–U+1FFF
(233 characters) *
Letterlike Symbols Letterlike Symbols is a Unicode block containing 80 characters which are constructed mainly from the glyphs of one or more letters. In addition to this block, Unicode includes full styled mathematical alphabets, although Unicode does not exp ...

U+2100–U+214F
(1 character: ) *
Latin Extended-E Latin Extended-E is a Unicode block containing Latin script characters used in German dialectology (Teuthonista), Anthropos (journal), Anthropos alphabet, Yakut scripts, Sakha and Americanist phonetic notation, Americanist usage. Block Histo ...

U+AB30–U+AB6F
(1 character: ) * Ancient Greek Numbers
U+10140–U+1018F
(79 characters) * Ancient Symbols
U+10190–U+101CF
(1 character: ) *
Ancient Greek Musical Notation Ancient Greek Musical Notation is a Unicode block containing symbols representing Musical system of ancient Greece, musical notations used in ancient Greece. Block History The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and proces ...

U+1D200–U+1D24F
(70 characters)


List

The following is a
Unicode collation algorithm __NOTOC__ The Unicode collation algorithm (UCA) is an algorithm defined in Unicode Technical Report #10, which is a customizable method to produce binary keys from strings representing text in any writing system and language that can be represente ...
list of Greek characters and those Greek-derived characters that are sorted alongside them. Most of the characters of the blocks listed above are included, except for the Ancient Greek Numbers, Ancient Symbols and Ancient Greek Musical Notation. In addition, the collation charts include Greek-derived characters from the following blocks: *
Latin-1 Supplement The Latin-1 Supplement (also called C1 Controls and Latin-1 Supplement) is the second Unicode block in the Unicode standard. It encodes the upper range of ISO 8859-1: 80 (U+0080) – FF (U+00FF). C1 Controls (0080–009F) are not graphic. T ...

U+0080–U+00FF
(1 character: ) *
CJK Compatibility CJK Compatibility is a Unicode block containing square symbols (both CJK and Latin alphanumeric) encoded for compatibility with East Asian character sets. In Unicode 1.0, it was divided into two blocks, named CJK Squared Words (U+3300–U+337F) ...

U+3300–U+33FF
(8 characters) *
Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols is a Unicode block comprising styled forms of Latin alphabet, Latin and Greek alphabet, Greek letters and decimal numerical digit, digits that enable mathematicians to denote different notions with different l ...

U+1D400–U+1D7FF
(282 characters) Other Greek-derived characters are excluded from the collation charts, such as and Coptic letters.


References

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