U+03E0 Greek Letter Sampi
U+03E0 was added to Unicode in version 1.1 (1993). It belongs to the block
This character is a Uppercase Letter and is mainly used in the Greek script. It is related to its lowercase variant
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. In text U+03E0 behaves as Alphabetic regarding line breaks. It has type Upper for sentence and Alphabetic Letter for word breaks. The Grapheme Cluster Break is Any.
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 | |
None | |
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Any | |
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NA | |
Other | |
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✘ | |
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Yes | |
Yes | |
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Yes | |
Yes | |
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Upper | |
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✘ | |
Alphabetic Letter | |
✘ | |
✔ | |
✔ | |
✘ | |
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Neutral | |
Not Applicable | |
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No_Joining_Group | |
Non Joining | |
Alphabetic | |
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not a number | |
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