U+03D7 "ϗ" Greek Kai Symbol Unicode Character

U+03D7 "ϗ" Greek Kai Symbol is a typographic ligature used primarily in ancient and medieval Greek manuscripts as a shorthand abbreviation for the conjunction "και" (kai), which means "and" in English. It resembles a combination of the Greek letters kappa and iota, often with a distinctive looped or hooked design, and is considered part of the Greek script block in Unicode. While rarely used in modern Greek writing, it persists in scholarly editions of classical texts and in liturgical contexts, serving as a compact symbol for the common coordinating conjunction.

General Properties

Code Point	U+03D7
Version Added	3.0
Name	Greek Kai Symbol
Block	Greek and Coptic
General Category	Lowercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ϗ
HTML Hex Encoding	ϗ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xCF 0x97
UTF-16 Encoding	0x03D7
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000003D7
C/C++/Java Escape	\u03d7

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
Lowercase	Yes
Simple Uppercase Code Point	"Ϗ" U+03CF Greek Capital Kai Symbol
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"Ϗ" U+03CF Greek Capital Kai Symbol
Uppercase Code Point	"Ϗ" U+03CF Greek Capital Kai Symbol
Titlecase Code Point	"Ϗ" U+03CF Greek Capital Kai Symbol
Cased	Yes
Changes When Casemapped	Yes
Changes When Titlecased	Yes
Changes When Uppercased	Yes
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	Lower