In Ancient Greek, θ represented the aspirated voiceless dental plosive IPA: [t̪ʰ], but in Modern Greek it represents the voiceless dental fricative IPA: [θ]. See more

The early Cyrillic letter fita (Ѳ, ѳ) developed from θ. This letter existed in the Russian alphabet until the 1918 Russian orthography reform. See more

Lower case
The lowercase letter θ is used as a symbol for:
• A plane angle in geometry
• An unknown variable in trigonometry
• The voiceless dental fricative, spelled θ See more

In its archaic form, θ was written as a cross within a circle (as in the Etruscan or ), and later, as a line or point in circle ( or ).
The cursive form ϑ was retained by Unicode as U+03D1 ϑ GREEK THETA SYMBOL, separate … See more

In Latin script used for the Gaulish language, theta inspired the tau gallicum (Ꟈ ꟈ). The phonetic value of the tau gallicum is thought to have been [t͡s]. In addition, multiple modern languages written in Latin script use Latin theta. See more

In the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA), [θ] represents the voiceless dental fricative, as in thick or thin. It does not represent the consonant in the, which is the See more

In ancient times, Tau was used as a symbol for life or resurrection, whereas the eighth letter of the Greek alphabet (ninth in the archaic … See more