Tau

This article is about the letter of the Greek alphabet. For other uses, see Tau (disambiguation).
Not to be confused with Tao or the Latin letter T.
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Tau (uppercase Τ, lowercase τ; Greek: ταυ [taf]) is the 19th letter of the Greek alphabet. In the system of Greek numerals it has a value of 300.

The name in English is pronounced /t/ or /tɔː/,[1] but in modern Greek it is [taf]. This is because the pronunciation of the combination of Greek letters αυ has changed from ancient to modern times from one of [au] to either [av] or [af], depending on what follows (see Greek orthography).

Tau was derived from the Phoenician letter taw (𐤕). Letters that arose from tau include Roman T and Cyrillic Te (Т, т).

The letter occupies the Unicode slots U+03C4 (lowercase) and U+03A4 (uppercase). In HTML, they can be produced with named entities (τ and Τ), decimal references (τ and Τ), or hexadecimal references (τ and Τ).

Modern usage

The lower-case letter τ is used as a symbol for:

Biology

Mathematics

Physics

Symbolism

Character encodings

Character Τ τ
Unicode name GREEK CAPITAL LETTER TAU GREEK SMALL LETTER TAU COPTIC CAPITAL LETTER TAU COPTIC SMALL LETTER TAU
Encodings decimal hex decimal hex decimal hex decimal hex
Unicode 932 U+03A4 964 U+03C4 11430 U+2CA6 11431 U+2CA7
UTF-8 206 164 CE A4 207 132 CF 84 226 178 166 E2 B2 A6 226 178 167 E2 B2 A7
Numeric character reference Τ Τ τ τ Ⲧ Ⲧ ⲧ ⲧ
Named character reference Τ τ
DOS Greek 147 93 171 AB
DOS Greek-2 208 D0 238 EE
Windows 1253 212 D4 244 F4
TeX \tau
Character 𝚻 𝛕 𝛵 𝜏 𝜯 𝝉
Unicode name MATHEMATICAL BOLD
CAPITAL TAU
MATHEMATICAL BOLD
SMALL TAU
MATHEMATICAL ITALIC
CAPITAL TAU
MATHEMATICAL ITALIC
SMALL TAU
MATHEMATICAL BOLD ITALIC
CAPITAL TAU
MATHEMATICAL BOLD ITALIC
SMALL TAU
Encodings decimal hex decimal hex decimal hex decimal hex decimal hex decimal hex
Unicode 120507 U+1D6BB 120533 U+1D6D5 120565 U+1D6F5 120591 U+1D70F 120623 U+1D72F 120649 U+1D749
UTF-8 240 157 154 187 F0 9D 9A BB 240 157 155 149 F0 9D 9B 95 240 157 155 181 F0 9D 9B B5 240 157 156 143 F0 9D 9C 8F 240 157 156 175 F0 9D 9C AF 240 157 157 137 F0 9D 9D 89
UTF-16 55349 57019 D835 DEBB 55349 57045 D835 DED5 55349 57077 D835 DEF5 55349 57103 D835 DF0F 55349 57135 D835 DF2F 55349 57161 D835 DF49
Numeric character reference 𝚻 𝚻 𝛕 𝛕 𝛵 𝛵 𝜏 𝜏 𝜯 𝜯 𝝉 𝝉
Character 𝝩 𝞃 𝞣 𝞽
Unicode name MATHEMATICAL SANS-SERIF
BOLD CAPITAL TAU
MATHEMATICAL SANS-SERIF
BOLD SMALL TAU
MATHEMATICAL SANS-SERIF
BOLD ITALIC CAPITAL TAU
MATHEMATICAL SANS-SERIF
BOLD ITALIC SMALL TAU
Encodings decimal hex decimal hex decimal hex decimal hex
Unicode 120681 U+1D769 120707 U+1D783 120739 U+1D7A3 120765 U+1D7BD
UTF-8 240 157 157 169 F0 9D 9D A9 240 157 158 131 F0 9D 9E 83 240 157 158 163 F0 9D 9E A3 240 157 158 189 F0 9D 9E BD
UTF-16 55349 57193 D835 DF69 55349 57219 D835 DF83 55349 57251 D835 DFA3 55349 57277 D835 DFBD
Numeric character reference 𝝩 𝝩 𝞃 𝞃 𝞣 𝞣 𝞽 𝞽

These characters are used only as mathematical symbols. Stylized Greek text should be encoded using the normal Greek letters, with markup and formatting to indicate text style.

References

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