Delta Symbol

Copy Δ, the small δ, the increment ∆, nabla ∇, the partial ∂, or a string such as Δx.

Delta Symbol

ΔGreek capital letter deltaU+0394Ready to copy

60 delta characters and strings. Tap any value to copy it.

60 delta characters and strings. A character and its name both copy the character. A code copies the code.
Character	Name	Code point	Alt code	Option keys	HTML	LaTeX
	U+0394. The Greek capital, and the delta of Δx. It has no Alt code and no Option key: Alt+235 types the small δ, and Option+J types ∆, U+2206, which is a different character. Δ in HTML, \Delta in LaTeX.
	U+03B4. The small letter. Alt+235 on a number pad, from code page 437. δ in HTML, \delta in LaTeX. It names the Kronecker delta and the Dirac delta function.
	U+2206. Not the Greek letter: a maths sign that looks much the same. Option+J types it. Unicode's aliases are Laplace operator, forward difference and symmetric difference. It has no named HTML entity and no LaTeX macro in the sources used here.
	U+2207. A delta turned over. Unicode's aliases are backward difference, gradient and del. The name comes from a Greek word for a Phoenician harp, after the shape. ∇ in HTML, \nabla in LaTeX.
	U+2202. The sign of a partial derivative, as in ∂/∂x, and a separate character from δ. Option+D types it. ∂ in HTML, \partial in LaTeX.
	U+1E9F. A Latin letter that looks like δ, also known as script d or insular d. It writes the th of this in transcriptions of medieval Welsh. Small only: Unicode's note calls it a non-casing letter. Added in Unicode 5.1 (2008).
	U+1D6FF. Unicode defines it as δ in an italic font. One of ten maths styles of delta, which are meant for mathematics and not for styling words.
	Made of U+0394 and U+0078. A change in x. Δ before a quantity means a change in it: delta is the first letter of the Greek word for difference.
	Made of U+0394 and U+0074. A change in t. Only the first character is special, so type any letter of your own after a copied Δ.
	U+1F53A. There is no delta emoji. This is the nearest picture, which the emoji list calls red triangle pointed up. Unicode cross-references it to the black triangle ▲, not to delta.
	U+1D5F. A raised small delta, which Unicode defines as a superscript δ. From Phonetic Extensions, added in Unicode 4.0 (2003). There is no lowered one.
	U+018D. A δ turned over, and a former letter of the International Phonetic Alphabet. Unicode's alias is reversed Polish-hook o, and its note calls the letter archaic.
	U+225C. A delta over an equals sign, now and then used to define a new variable. Unicode's aliases are equiangular and equal to by definition. &trie; in HTML; \triangleq in LaTeX needs amssymb.
	U+1D6C1. Unicode defines it as ∇ in a bold font. Each of the five styled nablas comes straight after the capital omega of its style, here U+1D6C0.
	U+1D6FB. Unicode defines it as ∇ in an italic font.
	U+1D735. Unicode defines it as ∇ in a bold italic font.
	U+1D76F. Unicode defines it as ∇ in a sans-serif bold font.
	U+1D7A9. Unicode defines it as ∇ in a sans-serif bold italic font, the last of the five.
	U+1D6AB. Unicode defines it as Δ in a bold font. Greek has five maths styles, all bold, italic or both: there is no script, Fraktur or double-struck delta. Added in Unicode 3.1 (2001).
	U+1D6C5. Unicode defines it as δ in a bold font.
	U+1D6E5. Unicode defines it as Δ in an italic font.
	U+1D71F. Unicode defines it as Δ in a bold italic font.
	U+1D739. Unicode defines it as δ in a bold italic font.
	U+1D759. Unicode defines it as Δ in a sans-serif bold font. There is no sans-serif delta of normal weight.
	U+1D773. Unicode defines it as δ in a sans-serif bold font.
	U+1D793. Unicode defines it as Δ in a sans-serif bold italic font.
	U+1D7AD. Unicode defines it as δ in a sans-serif bold italic font, the last delta in code order.
	Made of U+0394 and U+0079. A change in y. With Δx it writes Δy/Δx, the usual example of the difference operator.
	Made of U+0394 and U+0054. A change in a quantity written T. In precise timekeeping ΔT is a named quantity: Terrestrial Time minus Universal Time, the one that follows the Earth's rotation.
	Made of U+0394 and U+0076. A change in velocity. In spacecraft flight dynamics delta-v measures the impulse per unit of mass that a manoeuvre needs, and it has the units of speed.
	Made of U+0394 and U+0048. A change in enthalpy: positive for a process that absorbs heat, negative for one that releases it.
	Made of U+0394 and U+0047. A change in Gibbs free energy, ΔG = ΔH − TΔS. A reaction with a negative ΔG is called exergonic.
	Made of U+03B4 and U+207A. A partial positive charge in chemistry. The plus is U+207A, the superscript plus sign.
	Made of U+03B4 and U+207B. A partial negative charge. δ⁻ marks the more electronegative atom and δ⁺ the less.
	Made of U+03B4, U+1D62 and U+2C7C. Named after Leopold Kronecker: 1 if i and j are equal, 0 otherwise. The subscript j, U+2C7C, was added in Unicode 5.1 (2008), five years after the subscript i.
	Made of U+03B4, U+0028, U+0078 and U+0029. Named after Paul Dirac: zero everywhere except at zero, with an integral of one over the whole line.
	Made of U+03B4, U+00B9, U+2078 and U+004F. Delta notation for an isotope ratio, with 18 in the superscript digits U+00B9 and U+2078.
	Made of U+2207 and U+00B2. The Laplace operator written as nabla with a superscript two. The same operator is also written Δ.
	Made of U+2207 and U+0066. Grad f. Nabla in front of a scalar field gives its gradient.
	Made of U+2207, U+22C5 and U+0076. Div v: nabla, the dot operator U+22C5, then the vector field.
	Made of U+2207, U+00D7 and U+0076. Curl v: nabla, the multiplication sign U+00D7, then the vector field.
	Made of U+2202, U+002F and U+0078. The partial derivative operator with respect to x. The components of ∇ are operators of this form.
	U+25B3. A shape, not a letter. Unicode's alias is trine, and it cross-references the Increment sign. &xutri; in HTML, \bigtriangleup in LaTeX.
	U+25B2. Alt+30 on a number pad types this filled triangle, one of the old PC graphics characters, and not a delta.
	U+25B5. The small outline triangle. &utri; in HTML; \vartriangle in LaTeX needs amssymb.
	U+25B4. The small filled triangle. &utrif; in HTML; \blacktriangle in LaTeX needs amssymb.
	U+25BD. The look-alike of nabla. Unicode's alias is Hamilton operator, and it cross-references U+2207. &xdtri; in HTML, \bigtriangledown in LaTeX.
	U+25BC. Alt+31 on a number pad, the code after the up-pointing triangle.
	U+1F53B. The emoji list calls it red triangle pointed down: the nearest emoji to a nabla.
	U+1F53C. The emoji list calls it upwards button and files it with the arrows and player buttons, not the shapes. Unicode's alias is play arrow up.
	U+1F53D. The emoji list calls it downwards button. Unicode's alias is play arrow down.
	U+10903. The ancestor. Greek delta was derived from the Phoenician letter dalet, which Unicode names delt and cross-references to the Hebrew dalet. Added in Unicode 5.0 (2006). Without a font for the script it is an empty box.
	U+0414. A descendant of delta, as the Latin D is. &Dcy; in HTML.
	U+0434. The small Cyrillic De. &dcy; in HTML.
	U+2C86. The Coptic delta, which Unicode names dalda. Added in Unicode 4.1 (2005), in the Coptic block.
	U+2C87. The small Coptic dalda.
	U+10384. A letter of the Ugaritic script that Unicode names delta. Added in Unicode 4.0 (2003).
	U+234B. A delta with an upright line through it. One of three characters of the APL programming language with delta in their names.
	U+234D. A delta inside a quad, the upright box of APL.
	U+2359. A delta with a bar under it.

Next step Alt+235 next to every other Alt code σ and ∑ next, told apart the same way

How it works

The delta symbol is Δ, Greek capital letter delta, U+0394. Option+J on the U.S. layout types ∆, Increment, U+2206, a different character. Copy and paste the delta symbol from 60 rows, with δ, ∇, ∂ and strings such as Δx.

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Δ is not ∆

Δ, U+0394, is the Greek letter. ∆, U+2206, is Increment, a maths sign, and the two look much the same. Unicode gives ∆ no decomposition, so they stay two characters. To check one you already have, paste it into Search.

Tips

The ten maths styles such as 𝛿 are meant for mathematics. Unicode defines each as Δ or δ in a named font.
In LaTeX, \Delta, \delta, \nabla and \partial work in maths mode with no package. \triangleq, for ≜, needs amssymb.

Questions and answers

How do I type the delta symbol on a Mac or in PPT?

On the U.S. layout, Option+J types ∆, Increment, not the letter. For Δ, press Fn or Globe with E and search delta. In PPT, open Insert, choose Symbol and double-click Δ. Typing 0394 and then Alt+X does not convert there.

Is there a delta emoji?

No. Emoji 18.0 has no emoji with delta in its name. The nearest picture is 🔺, red triangle pointed up, with 🔻 for a nabla. The letter Δ is plain text, not an emoji.

What is the Alt code for delta?

With Num Lock on, hold Alt and type 235 on the number pad for the small δ. The capital Δ has no Alt code. Alt+30 types ▲, a triangle and not a letter. In a web page, write Δ or Δ for the capital.

What does the delta symbol mean?

Δ before a quantity means a change in it, as in Δx: delta is the first letter of the Greek word for difference. It is also the discriminant, b² − 4ac, and the Laplace operator. The small δ marks a partial charge in chemistry.

All 60 delta characters and strings

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Delta t Made of U+0394 and U+0074. A change in t. Only the first character is special, so type any letter of your own after a copied Δ.
Delta x Made of U+0394 and U+0078. A change in x. Δ before a quantity means a change in it: delta is the first letter of the Greek word for difference.
Greek capital letter delta U+0394. The Greek capital, and the delta of Δx. It has no Alt code and no Option key: Alt+235 types the small δ, and Option+J types ∆, U+2206, which is a different character. Δ in HTML, \Delta in LaTeX.
Greek small letter delta U+03B4. The small letter. Alt+235 on a number pad, from code page 437. δ in HTML, \delta in LaTeX. It names the Kronecker delta and the Dirac delta function.
Increment U+2206. Not the Greek letter: a maths sign that looks much the same. Option+J types it. Unicode's aliases are Laplace operator, forward difference and symmetric difference. It has no named HTML entity and no LaTeX macro in the sources used here.

Show all 60 delta characters and strings (55 more)

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Latin small letter delta U+1E9F. A Latin letter that looks like δ, also known as script d or insular d. It writes the th of this in transcriptions of medieval Welsh. Small only: Unicode's note calls it a non-casing letter. Added in Unicode 5.1 (2008).
Mathematical italic small delta U+1D6FF. Unicode defines it as δ in an italic font. One of ten maths styles of delta, which are meant for mathematics and not for styling words.
Nabla U+2207. A delta turned over. Unicode's aliases are backward difference, gradient and del. The name comes from a Greek word for a Phoenician harp, after the shape. ∇ in HTML, \nabla in LaTeX.
Partial differential U+2202. The sign of a partial derivative, as in ∂/∂x, and a separate character from δ. Option+D types it. ∂ in HTML, \partial in LaTeX.
Up-pointing red triangle U+1F53A. There is no delta emoji. This is the nearest picture, which the emoji list calls red triangle pointed up. Unicode cross-references it to the black triangle ▲, not to delta.

Greek and Latin letters 2

Latin small letter turned delta U+018D. A δ turned over, and a former letter of the International Phonetic Alphabet. Unicode's alias is reversed Polish-hook o, and its note calls the letter archaic.
Modifier letter small delta U+1D5F. A raised small delta, which Unicode defines as a superscript δ. From Phonetic Extensions, added in Unicode 4.0 (2003). There is no lowered one.

Increment, nabla and partial 6

Delta equal to U+225C. A delta over an equals sign, now and then used to define a new variable. Unicode's aliases are equiangular and equal to by definition. &trie; in HTML; \triangleq in LaTeX needs amssymb.
Mathematical bold italic nabla U+1D735. Unicode defines it as ∇ in a bold italic font.
Mathematical bold nabla U+1D6C1. Unicode defines it as ∇ in a bold font. Each of the five styled nablas comes straight after the capital omega of its style, here U+1D6C0.
Mathematical italic nabla U+1D6FB. Unicode defines it as ∇ in an italic font.
Mathematical sans-serif bold italic nabla U+1D7A9. Unicode defines it as ∇ in a sans-serif bold italic font, the last of the five.
Mathematical sans-serif bold nabla U+1D76F. Unicode defines it as ∇ in a sans-serif bold font.

Maths styles 9

Mathematical bold capital delta U+1D6AB. Unicode defines it as Δ in a bold font. Greek has five maths styles, all bold, italic or both: there is no script, Fraktur or double-struck delta. Added in Unicode 3.1 (2001).
Mathematical bold italic capital delta U+1D71F. Unicode defines it as Δ in a bold italic font.
Mathematical bold italic small delta U+1D739. Unicode defines it as δ in a bold italic font.
Mathematical bold small delta U+1D6C5. Unicode defines it as δ in a bold font.
Mathematical italic capital delta U+1D6E5. Unicode defines it as Δ in an italic font.
Mathematical sans-serif bold capital delta U+1D759. Unicode defines it as Δ in a sans-serif bold font. There is no sans-serif delta of normal weight.
Mathematical sans-serif bold italic capital delta U+1D793. Unicode defines it as Δ in a sans-serif bold italic font.
Mathematical sans-serif bold italic small delta U+1D7AD. Unicode defines it as δ in a sans-serif bold italic font, the last delta in code order.
Mathematical sans-serif bold small delta U+1D773. Unicode defines it as δ in a sans-serif bold font.

Ready-made strings 15

Curl of v Made of U+2207, U+00D7 and U+0076. Curl v: nabla, the multiplication sign U+00D7, then the vector field.
Delta capital T Made of U+0394 and U+0054. A change in a quantity written T. In precise timekeeping ΔT is a named quantity: Terrestrial Time minus Universal Time, the one that follows the Earth's rotation.
Delta G Made of U+0394 and U+0047. A change in Gibbs free energy, ΔG = ΔH − TΔS. A reaction with a negative ΔG is called exergonic.
Delta H Made of U+0394 and U+0048. A change in enthalpy: positive for a process that absorbs heat, negative for one that releases it.
Delta minus Made of U+03B4 and U+207B. A partial negative charge. δ⁻ marks the more electronegative atom and δ⁺ the less.
Delta oxygen-18 Made of U+03B4, U+00B9, U+2078 and U+004F. Delta notation for an isotope ratio, with 18 in the superscript digits U+00B9 and U+2078.
Delta plus Made of U+03B4 and U+207A. A partial positive charge in chemistry. The plus is U+207A, the superscript plus sign.
Delta y Made of U+0394 and U+0079. A change in y. With Δx it writes Δy/Δx, the usual example of the difference operator.
Delta-v Made of U+0394 and U+0076. A change in velocity. In spacecraft flight dynamics delta-v measures the impulse per unit of mass that a manoeuvre needs, and it has the units of speed.
Dirac delta function Made of U+03B4, U+0028, U+0078 and U+0029. Named after Paul Dirac: zero everywhere except at zero, with an integral of one over the whole line.
Divergence of v Made of U+2207, U+22C5 and U+0076. Div v: nabla, the dot operator U+22C5, then the vector field.
Gradient of f Made of U+2207 and U+0066. Grad f. Nabla in front of a scalar field gives its gradient.
Kronecker delta Made of U+03B4, U+1D62 and U+2C7C. Named after Leopold Kronecker: 1 if i and j are equal, 0 otherwise. The subscript j, U+2C7C, was added in Unicode 5.1 (2008), five years after the subscript i.
Laplacian, nabla squared Made of U+2207 and U+00B2. The Laplace operator written as nabla with a superscript two. The same operator is also written Δ.
Partial derivative in x Made of U+2202, U+002F and U+0078. The partial derivative operator with respect to x. The components of ∇ are operators of this form.

Triangles, not delta 6

Black down-pointing triangle U+25BC. Alt+31 on a number pad, the code after the up-pointing triangle.
Black up-pointing small triangle U+25B4. The small filled triangle. &utrif; in HTML; \blacktriangle in LaTeX needs amssymb.
Black up-pointing triangle U+25B2. Alt+30 on a number pad types this filled triangle, one of the old PC graphics characters, and not a delta.
White down-pointing triangle U+25BD. The look-alike of nabla. Unicode's alias is Hamilton operator, and it cross-references U+2207. &xdtri; in HTML, \bigtriangledown in LaTeX.
White up-pointing small triangle U+25B5. The small outline triangle. &utri; in HTML; \vartriangle in LaTeX needs amssymb.
White up-pointing triangle U+25B3. A shape, not a letter. Unicode's alias is trine, and it cross-references the Increment sign. &xutri; in HTML, \bigtriangleup in LaTeX.

Triangle emoji 3

Down-pointing red triangle U+1F53B. The emoji list calls it red triangle pointed down: the nearest emoji to a nabla.
Down-pointing small red triangle U+1F53D. The emoji list calls it downwards button. Unicode's alias is play arrow down.
Up-pointing small red triangle U+1F53C. The emoji list calls it upwards button and files it with the arrows and player buttons, not the shapes. Unicode's alias is play arrow up.

Delta in other alphabets 9

APL functional symbol delta stile U+234B. A delta with an upright line through it. One of three characters of the APL programming language with delta in their names.
APL functional symbol delta underbar U+2359. A delta with a bar under it.
APL functional symbol quad delta U+234D. A delta inside a quad, the upright box of APL.
Coptic capital letter dalda U+2C86. The Coptic delta, which Unicode names dalda. Added in Unicode 4.1 (2005), in the Coptic block.
Coptic small letter dalda U+2C87. The small Coptic dalda.
Cyrillic capital letter de U+0414. A descendant of delta, as the Latin D is. &Dcy; in HTML.
Cyrillic small letter de U+0434. The small Cyrillic De. &dcy; in HTML.
Phoenician letter delt U+10903. The ancestor. Greek delta was derived from the Phoenician letter dalet, which Unicode names delt and cross-references to the Hebrew dalet. Added in Unicode 5.0 (2006). Without a font for the script it is an empty box.
Ugaritic letter delta U+10384. A letter of the Ugaritic script that Unicode names delta. Added in Unicode 4.0 (2003).

How this list was compiled: Names, and the code points they belong to, are checked against UnicodeData.txt, version 18.0.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/UnicodeData.txt), and printed in sentence case; notes that say Unicode defines it as quote its decomposition field. Notes that say Unicode's alias, Unicode's note or Unicode cross-references quote NamesList.txt of the same version (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/NamesList.txt). The version a character was added in is from DerivedAge.txt (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/DerivedAge.txt), block names are from Blocks.txt, and the years are from https://www.unicode.org/history/publicationdates.html. Emoji names are from emoji-test.txt, version 18.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/emoji/emoji-test.txt), which has no emoji with delta in its name. Alt codes are from the code page 437 table (https://www.unicode.org/Public/MAPPINGS/VENDORS/MICSFT/PC/CP437.TXT: 235 is δ) and, for 30 and 31, the PC graphics table for codes 1 to 31 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/MAPPINGS/VENDORS/MISC/IBMGRAPH.TXT). Option keys were read from a U.S. keyboard layout: Option+J gives U+2206 and Option+D gives U+2202, and no Option key gives U+0394 or U+03B4. HTML entity names are from https://html.spec.whatwg.org/entities.json. LaTeX macros are the ones LaTeX's fontdef.dtx or the amssymb and amsfonts sources define, matched to code points through unicode-math-table.tex. Meanings: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta_%28letter%29 (the fourth Greek letter, derived from the Phoenician dalet; Latin D and Cyrillic Д come from it; difference, Δy/Δx; partial charges; isotope ratios; delta over equals to define a new variable; the maths characters are for maths only), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin_delta, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nabla_symbol, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Del (gradient, divergence, curl, the Laplacian as ∇² and Δ, partial derivative operators as its components), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kronecker_delta, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirac_delta_function, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta-v, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%94T_%28timekeeping%29, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enthalpy and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibbs_free_energy. What is listed: every character with the word DELTA in its Unicode name (all 20 are here), the Increment sign, nabla and its five styles, the partial differential sign, the Phoenician, Cyrillic and Coptic relatives, six triangles and four triangle emoji as labelled look-alikes, and this site's own strings, which are two to four characters with nothing between them. Left out: the five styled partial differential signs, triangles with marks inside, arrows and player triangles, and the letters of other alphabets that only descend from dalet. The Start here group, the made rows, their names and the order are this site's own choice. All sources were checked on 2026-09-19. Licence: own work (facts from the Unicode Character Database, Unicode License v3, and from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0, restated in our own words; aliases and notes marked as Unicode's are quoted from NamesList.txt, Copyright © 1991-2026 Unicode, Inc., https://www.unicode.org/license.txt)