GREEK LETTER STIGMA

Property Value
Codepoint U+03DA
Literal Character Ϛ
Name GREEK LETTER STIGMA
Sketch
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Control Character no
Block Greek and Coptic
Subblock ASCII punctuation
UTF-8 byte encoding cf 9a
UTF-16 byte encoding 03 da (big endian)
HTML Entity Ϛ
Perl string literal \x{3DA}
Comments
  • apparently in origin a cursive form of digamma
  • the name "stigma" originally applied to a medieval sigma-tau ligature, whose shape was confusably similar to the cursive digamma
  • used as a symbol with a numeric value of 6
See Also U+2185: roman numeral six late form