U+0372 "Ͳ" Greek Capital Letter Archaic Sampi Unicode Character

U+0372 "Ͳ" Greek Capital Letter Archaic Sampi is a historical letter used in ancient Greek writing, primarily during the pre-classical and Hellenistic periods, to represent a sibilant sound similar to “ss” or “ts.” This character, known as sampi, was part of the Greek alphabet before being replaced by standard letters, and it often served as a numeric symbol for the value 900 in the Greek alphabetic numeral system.

General Properties

Code Point	U+0372
Version Added	5.1
Name	Greek Capital Letter Archaic Sampi
Block	Greek and Coptic
General Category	Uppercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	Ͳ
HTML Hex Encoding	Ͳ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xCD 0xB2
UTF-16 Encoding	0x0372
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00000372
C/C++/Java Escape	\u0372

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check	Yes
NFD Quick Check	Yes
NFKC Quick Check	Yes
NFKD Quick Check	Yes
Numeric Type	None
Numeric Value	NaN
Line Break	Alphabetic
Uppercase	Yes
Simple Lowercase Code Point	"ͳ" U+0373 Greek Small Letter Archaic Sampi
Lowercase Code Point	"ͳ" U+0373 Greek Small Letter Archaic Sampi
Simple Case Folding	"ͳ" U+0373 Greek Small Letter Archaic Sampi
Case Folding	"ͳ" U+0373 Greek Small Letter Archaic Sampi
Cased	Yes
Changes When Casefolded	Yes
Changes When Casemapped	Yes
Changes When Lowercased	Yes
Changes When NFKC Casefolded	Yes
NFKC Casefold	"ͳ" U+0373 Greek Small Letter Archaic Sampi
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ͳ" U+0373 Greek Small Letter Archaic Sampi
Script	Greek
Script Extensions	Greek
Indic Syllabic Category	Other
ID Start	Yes
XID Start	Yes
ID Continue	Yes
XID Continue	Yes
Alphabetic	Yes
Vertical Orientation	Rotated
Grapheme Base	Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break	Other
Word Break	Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break	Upper