U+03D8 Greek Letter Archaic Koppa
U+03D8 was added in Unicode version 3.2 in 2002. It belongs to the block Greek and Coptic in the Basic Multilingual Plane.
This character is a Uppercase Letter and is mainly used in the Greek script. Its lowercase variant is Greek Small Letter Archaic Koppa.
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+03D8 forms with similar adjacent characters prevents a line break inside it. The glyph can be confused with 2 other glyphs.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
Koppa or qoppa (Ϙ, ϙ; as a modern numeral sign: ϟ) is a letter that was used in early forms of the Greek alphabet, derived from Phoenician qoph (𐤒). It was originally used to denote the /k/ sound, but dropped out of use as an alphabetic character and replaced by Kappa (Κ). It has remained in use as a numeral symbol (90) in the system of Greek numerals, although with a modified shape. Koppa is the source of Latin Q, as well as the Cyrillic numeral sign of the same name (Koppa).
Representations
| System | Representation |
|---|---|
| Nº | 984 |
| UTF-8 | CF 98 |
| UTF-16 | 03 D8 |
| UTF-32 | 00 00 03 D8 |
| URL-Quoted | %CF%98 |
| HTML hex reference | Ϙ |
| Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | Ϙ |
| Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes) | 81 30 CD 34 |
| digraph | 'G |
Related Characters
Confusables
Elsewhere
Complete Record
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| 3.2 (2002) | |
| GREEK LETTER ARCHAIC KOPPA | |
| — | |
| Greek and Coptic | |
| Uppercase Letter | |
| Greek | |
| Left To Right | |
| Not Reordered | |
| none | |
| Greek Letter Archaic Koppa | |
| ✘ | |
| Greek Small Letter Archaic Koppa | |
| Greek Small Letter Archaic Koppa | |
| ✔ | |
| Greek Letter Archaic Koppa | |
| Greek Letter Archaic Koppa | |
| Greek Letter Archaic Koppa | |
| Greek Letter Archaic Koppa | |
| Greek Small Letter Archaic Koppa | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Greek Letter Archaic Koppa | |
| Any | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| ✘ | |
| None | |
| — | |
| NA | |
| Other | |
| — | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Yes | |
| Yes | |
| Greek Small Letter Archaic Koppa | |
| Yes | |
| Greek Small Letter Archaic Koppa | |
| Yes | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Upper | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Alphabetic Letter | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Greek Letter Archaic Koppa | |
| None | |
| neutral | |
| Not Applicable | |
| — | |
| No_Joining_Group | |
| Non Joining | |
| Alphabetic | |
| none | |
| not a number | |
| Greek Small Letter Archaic Koppa | |
| R |