U+03CF "Ϗ" Greek Capital Kai Symbol Unicode Character

U+03CF "Ϗ" Greek Capital Kai Symbol is a historical letter used primarily in Greek as an abbreviation or numeral symbol for the word "kai" (meaning "and"), functioning similarly to an ampersand in English. It is a variant form of the Greek letter kappa, often appearing in ancient manuscripts and inscriptions to save space or denote conjunction. While not part of the standard modern Greek alphabet, it is encoded in Unicode for paleographic and scholarly representation of classical texts.

General Properties

Code Point	U+03CF
Version Added	5.1
Name	Greek Capital Kai Symbol
Block	Greek and Coptic
General Category	Uppercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	Ϗ
HTML Hex Encoding	Ϗ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xCF 0x8F
UTF-16 Encoding	0x03CF
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000003CF
C/C++/Java Escape	\u03cf

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	"ϗ" U+03D7 Greek Kai Symbol
Lowercase Code Point	"ϗ" U+03D7 Greek Kai Symbol
Simple Case Folding	"ϗ" U+03D7 Greek Kai Symbol
Case Folding	"ϗ" U+03D7 Greek Kai Symbol
Cased	Yes
Changes When Casefolded	Yes
Changes When Casemapped	Yes
Changes When Lowercased	Yes
Changes When NFKC Casefolded	Yes
NFKC Casefold	"ϗ" U+03D7 Greek Kai Symbol
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ϗ" U+03D7 Greek Kai Symbol
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