GREEK LETTER STIGMA

Codepoint
U+03DA
Literal Character
Ϛ
Name
GREEK LETTER STIGMA
Sketch
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Control Character
no
Subblock
Archaic letters
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