The table below lists all 48 (2 × 24 for uppercase and lowercase) or 69 (including variants and accented lettters) basic letters of the Greek alphabet.

 

Unicode						Transliteration (ISO 843)
Capital letters		Small letters		English	Deutsch	Capital letters		Small letters
Symbol	Code Point	Symbol	Code Point	Name	Name	Symbol	Code Point	Symbol	Code Point
Α	0391	α	03B1	Alpha	Alpha	A	0041	a	0061
Ά	0386	ά	03AC	Alpha with tonos (acute accent)	Alpha mit Tonos (Akutakzent)	Á	00C1	á	00E1
Β	0392	β	03B2	Beta	Beta	V	0056	v	0076
Γ	0393	γ	03B3	Gamma	Gamma	G	0047	g	0067
Δ	0394	δ	03B4	Delta	Delta	D	0044	d	0064
Ε	0395	ε	03B5	Epsilon	Epsilon	E	0045	e	0065
Έ	0388	έ	03AD	Epsilon with tonos (acute accent)	Epsilon mit Tonos (Akutakzent)	É	00C9	é	00E9
Ζ	0396	ζ	03B6	Zeta	Zeta	Z	005A	z	007A
Η	0397	η	03B7	Eta	Eta	Ī	012A	ī	012B
Ή	0389	ή	03AE	Eta with tonos (acute accent)	Eta mit Tonos (Akutakzent)	Ī́	012A+0301	ī́	012B+0301
Θ	0398	θ	03B8	Theta	Theta	TH/Th	0054+0048 0054+0068	th	0074+0068
Ι	0399	ι	03B9	Iota	Jota	I	0049	i	0069
Ί	038A	ί	03AF	Iota with tonos (acute accent)	Jota mit Tonos (Akutakzent)	Í	00CD	í	00ED
Ϊ	03AA	ϊ	03CA	Iota with dialytika (diaeresis)	Jota mit Trema	Ï	00CF	ï	00EF
–	–	ΐ	0390	Iota mit tonos (acute accent) and dialytika (diaeresis)	Jota mit Tonos (Akutakzent) und Trema	–	–	ḯ	1E2F
Κ	039A	κ	03BA	Kappa	Kappa	K	004B	k	006B
Λ	039B	λ	03BB	Lambda	Lambda	L	004C	l	006C
Μ	039C	μ	03BC	Mu	My	M	004D	m	006D
Ν	039D	ν	03BD	Nu	Ny	N	004E	n	006E
Ξ	039E	ξ	03BE	Xi	Xi	X	0058	x	0078
Ο	039F	ο	03BF	Omicron	Omikron	O	004F	o	006F
Ό	038C	ό	03CC	Omicron with tonos (acute accent)	Omikron mit Tonos (Akutakzent)	Ó	00D3	ó	00F3
Π	03A0	π	03C0	Pi	Pi	P	0050	p	0070
Ρ	03A1	ρ	03C1	Rho	Rho	R	0052	r	0072
Σ	03A3	σ	03C3	Sigma	Sigma	S	0053	s	0073
–	–	ς	03C2	Final sigma or stigma	Schluss-Sigma	–	–	s	0073
Τ	03A4	τ	03C4	Tau	Tau	T	0054	t	0074
Υ	03A5	υ	03C5	Upsilon	Ypsilon	Y	0059	y	0079
Ύ	038E	ύ	03CD	Upsilon with tonos (acute accent)	Ypsilon mit Tonos (Akutakzent)	Ý	00DD	ý	00FD
Ϋ	03AB	ϋ	03CB	Upsilon with dialytika (diaeresis)	Ypsilon mit Trema	Ÿ	0178	ÿ	00FF
–	–	ΰ	03B0	Upsilon mit tonos (acute accent) and diaeresis	Ypsilon mit Tonos (Akutakzent) und Trema	–	–	ÿ́	00FF+0301
Φ	03A6	φ	03C6	Phi	Phi	F	0046	f	0066
Χ	03A7	χ	03C7	Chi	Chi	CH/Ch	0043+0048 0043+0068	ch	0063+0068
Ψ	03A8	ψ	03C8	Psi	Psi	PS/Ps	0050+0053 0050+0073	ps	0070+0073
Ω	03A9	ω	03C9	Omega	Omega	Ō	014C	ō	014D
Ώ	038F	ώ	03CE	Omega with tonos (acute accent)	Omega mit Tonos (Akutakzent)	Ṓ	1E52	ṓ	1E53
Exceptions
Double vowels “αυ” are transliterated as au
Double vowels “ευ” are transliterated as eu
Double vowels “ου” are transliterated as ou

 

The two diacritical marks modern Greek uses are: the tonos or acute accent ›U+0301 Combining acute accent‹ and the dialytika or diaeresis ›U+0308 Combining diaeresis‹.

 

Please note that there are no precomposed characters in Unicode for three characters required for Greek transliteration. These characters have to be composed using the respective letter with macron or diaeresis and the combining acute accent:

▪ Ī́ = Latin capital letter I with macron and acute = ›U+012A Latin capital letter I with macron‹ + ›U+0301 Combining acute accent‹
▪ ī́ = Latin small letter i with macron and acute = ›U+012A Latin capital letter I with macron‹ + ›U+0301 Combining acute accent‹
▪ ÿ́ = Latin small letter y with diaeresis and acute = ›U+00FF latin small y with diaeresis‹ + ›U+0301 Combining acute accent‹

 

 

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