U+03DB Greek Small Letter Stigma
U+03DB was added to Unicode in version 3.0 (1999). It belongs to the block Greek and Coptic in the Basic Multilingual Plane.
This character is a Lowercase Letter and is mainly used in the Greek script. It is related to its uppercase variant Greek Letter Stigma and its titlecase variant Greek Letter Stigma.
The glyph is not a composition. It has a Neutral East Asian Width. In bidirectional context it acts as Left To Right and is not mirrored. The glyph can, under circumstances, be confused with 1 other glyphs. In text U+03DB behaves as Alphabetic regarding line breaks. It has type Lower for sentence and Alphabetic Letter for word breaks. The Grapheme Cluster Break is Any.
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 |
|---|---|
| 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
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Complete Record
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| 3.0 (1999) | |
| GREEK SMALL LETTER STIGMA | |
| — | |
| Greek and Coptic | |
| Lowercase Letter | |
| Greek | |
| Left To Right | |
| Not Reordered | |
| None | |
| Greek Small Letter Stigma | |
| ✔ | |
| Greek Small Letter Stigma | |
| Greek Small Letter Stigma | |
| ✘ | |
| Greek Letter Stigma | |
| Greek Letter Stigma | |
| Greek Letter Stigma | |
| Greek Letter Stigma | |
| Greek Small Letter Stigma | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Greek Small Letter Stigma | |
| Any | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| — | |
| NA | |
| Other | |
| — | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Yes | |
| Yes | |
| Greek Small Letter Stigma | |
| Yes | |
| Yes | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Lower | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Alphabetic Letter | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Greek Small Letter Stigma | |
| None | |
| Neutral | |
| Not Applicable | |
| — | |
| No_Joining_Group | |
| Non Joining | |
| Alphabetic | |
| None | |
| not a number | |
| Greek Small Letter Stigma | |
| R |