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Η

Seventh letter of the Greek alphabet

Also known as η · eta

Instance of: Greek letter
Part of: Greek alphabet

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Eta is the seventh letter of the Greek alphabet, representing the close front unrounded vowel,. Originally denoting the voiceless glottal fricative,, in most dialects of Ancient Greek, its sound value in the classical Attic dialect was a long open-mid front unrounded vowel,, which was later raised to in Hellenistic Greek, a process known as iotacism or itacism.

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Unicode character: Η applies to part: uppercase · unicode code point: 0397 · tex string: H
η applies to part: lowercase letter · unicode code point: 03B7 · tex string: \eta
Follows: Ζ
Followed by: Θ/θ
Based on: 𐤇
Different from: H/h
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