U+03DB Greek Small Letter Stigma
U+03DB was added in Unicode version 3.0 in 1999. It belongs to the block
This character is a Lowercase Letter and is mainly used in the Greek script. Its uppercase variant is
The glyph is not a composition. It has no designated width in East Asian texts. In bidirectional text it is written from left to right. When changing direction it is not mirrored. The word that U+03DB forms with similar adjacent characters prevents a line break inside it. The glyph can be confused with one other glyph.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
Stigma (ϛ) is a ligature of the Greek letters sigma (Σ) and tau (Τ), which was used in writing Greek between the Middle Ages and the 19th century. It is also used as a numeral symbol for the number 6. In this unrelated function, it is a continuation of the old letter digamma (originally Ϝ, cursive form ), which had served as a numeral since antiquity and was conflated with the σ-τ ligature in the minuscule handwriting of the Middle Ages.
Representations
System | Representation |
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Nº | 987 |
UTF-8 | CF 9B |
UTF-16 | 03 DB |
UTF-32 | 00 00 03 DB |
URL-Quoted | %CF%9B |
HTML hex reference | ϛ |
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | Ï› |
digraph | t3 |
Related Characters
Confusables
Elsewhere
Complete Record
Property | Value |
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3.0 (1999) | |
GREEK SMALL LETTER STIGMA | |
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Greek and Coptic | |
Lowercase Letter | |
Greek | |
Left To Right | |
Not Reordered | |
none | |
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✔ | |
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✘ | |
✔ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✔ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✔ | |
✔ | |
✔ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
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Any | |
✔ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✔ | |
✔ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
0 | |
0 | |
0 | |
✘ | |
None | |
— | |
NA | |
Other | |
— | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
Yes | |
Yes | |
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Yes | |
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Yes | |
✘ | |
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✘ | |
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✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
Lower | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
Alphabetic Letter | |
✘ | |
✔ | |
✔ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
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None | |
neutral | |
Not Applicable | |
— | |
No_Joining_Group | |
Non Joining | |
Alphabetic | |
none | |
not a number | |
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R |