U+03E0 Greek Letter Sampi
U+03E0 was added in Unicode version 1.1 in 1993. It belongs to the block
This character is a Uppercase Letter and is mainly used in the Greek script. Its lowercase 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+03E0 forms with similar adjacent characters prevents a line break inside it.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
Sampi (modern: ϡ; ancient shapes: , ) is an archaic letter of the Greek alphabet. It was used as an addition to the classical 24-letter alphabet in some eastern Ionic dialects of ancient Greek in the 6th and 5th centuries BC, to denote some type of a sibilant sound, probably [ss] or [ts], and was abandoned when the sound disappeared from Greek.
It later remained in use as a numeral symbol for 900 in the alphabetic ("Milesian") system of Greek numerals. Its modern shape, which resembles a π inclining to the right with a longish curved cross-stroke, developed during its use as a numeric symbol in minuscule handwriting of the Byzantine era.
Its current name, sampi, originally probably meant "san pi", i.e. "like a pi", and is also of medieval origin. The letter's original name in antiquity is not known. It has been proposed that sampi was a continuation of the archaic letter san, which was originally shaped like an M and denoted the sound [s] in some other dialects. Besides san, names that have been proposed for sampi include parakyisma and angma, while other historically attested terms for it are enacosis, sincope, and o charaktir.
Representations
System | Representation |
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Nº | 992 |
UTF-8 | CF A0 |
UTF-16 | 03 E0 |
UTF-32 | 00 00 03 E0 |
URL-Quoted | %CF%A0 |
HTML hex reference | Ϡ |
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | Ï |
LATEX | \Sampi |
Adobe Glyph List | Sampigreek |
digraph | P3 |
Related Characters
Elsewhere
Complete Record
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1.1 (1993) | |
GREEK LETTER SAMPI | |
GREEK CAPITAL LETTER SAMPI | |
Greek and Coptic | |
Uppercase Letter | |
Greek | |
Left To Right | |
Not Reordered | |
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✔ | |
✔ | |
✘ | |
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Any | |
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0 | |
0 | |
0 | |
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None | |
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NA | |
Other | |
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✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
Yes | |
Yes | |
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Yes | |
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Yes | |
✘ | |
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Upper | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
Alphabetic Letter | |
✘ | |
✔ | |
✔ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
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neutral | |
Not Applicable | |
— | |
No_Joining_Group | |
Non Joining | |
Alphabetic | |
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not a number | |
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