Zeta

E105673

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

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Zeta canonical 2

How this entity was disambiguated

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 ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (2)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.