Zeta

E105673

Zeta is the sixth letter of the Greek alphabet, corresponding roughly to the English "z" sound.

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Label Occurrences
Zeta canonical 2

Statements (40)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Alphabetic character
Greek letter
alphabetCategory Consonant
alphabetOrderRelation Epsilon < Zeta < Eta
alphabetSystem Greek
belongsToWritingSystemType Segmental alphabet
correspondsToEnglishLetter Z
correspondsToSound /z/
follows Epsilon
hasLowercaseShapeDescription resembles a cursive or looped form with descender
hasNumericValueInGreekNumerals 7
hasUppercaseShapeDescription resembles Latin capital letter Z
historicalOrigin Derived from Phoenician letter Zayin
ISO15924CodeForScript Grek
ISOBasicLatinEquivalent Z
ISOStandardForTransliteration ISO 843
linguisticFunction Represents consonant phoneme
lowercaseForm ζ
nameInGreek Ζήτα
phoneticCategory Voiced alveolar fricative
positionInAlphabet 6
precedes Eta
script Greek alphabet
scriptFamily Alphabetic
symbolFor Riemann zeta function
transliterationInISO843 Z
transliterationSystem ISO 843
UnicodeCodePointLowercase U+03B6
UnicodeCodePointUppercase U+0396
UnicodeNameLowercase GREEK SMALL LETTER ZETA
UnicodeNameUppercase GREEK CAPITAL LETTER ZETA
uppercaseForm Ζ
usedAsSymbolIn Computer science
Engineering
Mathematics
Physics
Statistics
usedIn Greek language
usedInNumberSystem Greek numerals
writingDirection Left-to-right

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