U+03FA Greek Capital Letter San
U+03FA was added in Unicode version 4.0 in 2003. 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 San.
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+03FA 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:
San (Ϻ) was an archaic letter of the Greek alphabet. Its shape was similar to modern M or Mu, or to a modern Greek Sigma (Σ) turned sideways, and it was used as an alternative to Sigma to denote the sound /s/. Unlike Sigma, whose position in the alphabet is between Rho and Tau, San appeared between Pi and Qoppa in alphabetic order. In addition to denoting this separate archaic character, the name San was also used as an alternative name to denote the standard letter Sigma.
Representations
| System | Representation |
|---|---|
| Nº | 1018 |
| UTF-8 | CF BA |
| UTF-16 | 03 FA |
| UTF-32 | 00 00 03 FA |
| URL-Quoted | %CF%BA |
| HTML hex reference | Ϻ |
| Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | Ϻ |
| Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes) | 81 30 D0 38 |
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Complete Record
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| 4.0 (2003) | |
| GREEK CAPITAL LETTER SAN | |
| — | |
| Greek and Coptic | |
| Uppercase Letter | |
| Greek | |
| Left To Right | |
| Not Reordered | |
| none | |
| Greek Capital Letter San | |
| ✘ | |
| Greek Small Letter San | |
| Greek Small Letter San | |
| ✔ | |
| Greek Capital Letter San | |
| Greek Capital Letter San | |
| Greek Capital Letter San | |
| Greek Capital Letter San | |
| Greek Small Letter San | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Greek Capital Letter San | |
| Any | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| ✘ | |
| None | |
| — | |
| NA | |
| Other | |
| — | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Yes | |
| Yes | |
| Greek Small Letter San | |
| Yes | |
| Greek Small Letter San | |
| Yes | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Upper | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Alphabetic Letter | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Greek Capital Letter San | |
| None | |
| neutral | |
| Not Applicable | |
| — | |
| No_Joining_Group | |
| Non Joining | |
| Alphabetic | |
| none | |
| not a number | |
| Greek Small Letter San | |
| R |