Alpha beta charlie delta epsilon foxtrot gamma

Alpha beta charlie delta epsilon foxtrot gamma. Nevertheless, in the Unicode encoding standard, the following three phonetic symbols are considered the same characters as the corresponding Greek letters proper: β beta U+03B2 θ theta U+03B8 χ chi U+03C7 On the other hand, the following phonetic letters have Unicode representations separate from their Greek alphabetic use, either because their conventional typographic shape is too different from the original, or because they also have secondary uses as regular alphabetic characters in some Latin-based alphabets, including separate Latin uppercase letters distinct from the Greek ones. Use as numerals Main article: Greek letters were also used to write numbers. In the classical Ionian system, the first nine letters of the alphabet stood for the numbers from 1 to 9, the next nine letters stood for the multiples of 10, from 10 to 90, and the next nine letters stood for the multiples of 100, from 100 to 900.

This system has remained in use in Greek up to the present day, although today it is only employed for limited purposes such as enumerating chapters in a book, similar to the way Roman numerals are used in English. To mark a letter as a numeral sign, a small stroke called is added to the right of it. Use by student fraternities and sororities In North America, many college are named with combinations of Greek letters, and are hence also known as "Greek letter organizations".