Nu (letter)


Nu is the 13th letter of the Greek alphabet. In the system of Greek numerals it has a value of 50. It is derived from the ancient Phoenician language nun. Its Latin equivalent is N, though the lowercase resembles the Roman lowercase v.
The name of the letter is written νῦ in Ancient Greek and traditional Modern Greek polytonic orthography, while in Modern Greek it is written νι.
Letters that arose from nu include Roman N and Cyrillic Н.

Symbology

The uppercase Nu is not used, because it is normally identical to Latin N. The lower-case letter ν is used as a symbol for:
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.