![]() The other, also known as lunate or uncial epsilon and inherited from earlier uncial writing, looks like a semicircle crossed by a horizontal bar: it is encoded U+03F5 ϵ GREEK LUNATE EPSILON SYMBOL. One, the most common in modern typography and inherited from medieval minuscule, looks like a reversed number "3" and is encoded U+03B5 ε GREEK SMALL LETTER EPSILON. ![]() The lowercase version has two typographical variants, both inherited from medieval Greek handwriting. The uppercase form of epsilon is identical to Latin E but has its own code point in Unicode: U+0395 Ε GREEK CAPITAL LETTER EPSILON. ![]() ![]() The name of the letter was originally εἶ ( Ancient Greek: ), but it was later changed to ἒ ψιλόν ( e psilon 'simple e') in the Middle Ages to distinguish the letter from the digraph αι, a former diphthong that had come to be pronounced the same as epsilon. Letters that arose from epsilon include the Roman E, Ë and Ɛ, and Cyrillic Е, È, Ё, Є and Э. It was derived from the Phoenician letter He. In the system of Greek numerals it also has the value five. ![]() Epsilon ( / ˈ ɛ p s ɪ l ɒ n/, UK also / ɛ p ˈ s aɪ l ə n/ uppercase Ε, lowercase ε or lunate ϵ Greek: έψιλον) is the fifth letter of the Greek alphabet, corresponding phonetically to a mid front unrounded vowel IPA: or IPA. ![]()
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