How do I enter the theta symbol?
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How do I enter the Theta symbol?
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Ashish
on 9 Apr 2023
How do I enter the Theta symbol?
Walter Roberson
on 9 Apr 2023
The way to enter the Theta symbol is going to depend on your operating system, and possibly on your Language and Keyboard preferences.
Often, the easiest way to do it is to find somewhere that already has the symbol you want, and copy and paste it.
- Θ -- uppercase greek letter -- char(920)
- θ -- lowercase greek letter -- char(952)
- 𝜃 -- lowercase italic -- char(120579) (might not be available in your font)
- ϑ -- greek theta symbol -- char(977)
- ϴ -- greek capital theta symbol -- char(1012)
- ᶿ -- modified letter small theta -- char(7615)
And there are about 20 others; see the list at https://www.compart.com/en/unicode/search?q=theta#characters
You can use these characters in MATLAB inside of comments, and inside of character vectors and string() objects. You can potentially include them in plot ticks and labels and titles and text, if you use Interpreter 'none' or Interpreter 'tex' but you cannot use these codes with interpreter 'latex' . Note that whatever font you are using might not support (for example) Mathematical Sans-Serif Bold Capital Theta Symbol, or might lose attributes such as bold or italic.
None of these can be used as variable names in MATLAB (though you can cheat to get them as variables in the Symbolic Toolbox)
CHANDRA BABU GUTTIKONDA
on 17 Apr 2025
theta = 'θ';
disp(['Theta: ', theta]);
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Neil Henry
on 9 Dec 2021
Edited: Neil Henry
on 13 Oct 2025
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I got the theta symbol from the list of symbols here: ( https://www.symbolselect.com/math-symbols/ ). I think using unicode theta symbol directly will work fine as well.
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Walter Roberson
on 9 Dec 2021
Unicode characters work in Interpreter None or Interpreter Tex, but not Interpreter Latex
Ronald
on 21 Oct 2023
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How to write theta double dot in matlab code? pleaaaase!
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comb_dia = 776
%the following does not work in the command window but does work in
%Livescript
for c = [950 952 977 1012 7615]
fprintf('%5d --> %c%c\n', c, c, comb_dia);
end
%the following only works in LiveScript
syms theta__ddot Theta__ddot vartheta__ddot
[theta__ddot Theta__ddot vartheta__ddot]
%the following works in both
title('$\ddot{\theta} or \ddot{\Theta}$', 'interpreter', 'latex')
However, you can never use theta with double dot as a variable at the MATLAB level.
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