U+03DC "Ϝ" Greek Letter Digamma Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
Ϝ
U+03DC "Ϝ" Greek Letter Digamma is a historical letter of the Greek alphabet, originally used to represent the sound /w/, a labial velar approximant that was present in early Greek but later lost from the standard phonology. Its name "digamma" derives from its shape resembling two gamma letters stacked or joined. This character was primarily employed in ancient Greek inscriptions and, over time, became obsolete in classical Greek, though it survived as a numeral representing the number six in the acrophonic and later Milesian numeral systems. In modern contexts, digamma appears in historical, linguistic, and mathematical typography, and its Unicode encoding ensures its preservation for scholarly and digital use.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+03DC |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Greek Letter Digamma |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Greek Capital Letter Digamma |
| Block | Greek and Coptic |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ϝ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ϝ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xCF 0x9C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x03DC |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000003DC |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u03dc |
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 | "ϝ" U+03DD Greek Small Letter Digamma |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ϝ" U+03DD Greek Small Letter Digamma |
| Simple Case Folding | "ϝ" U+03DD Greek Small Letter Digamma |
| Case Folding | "ϝ" U+03DD Greek Small Letter Digamma |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ϝ" U+03DD Greek Small Letter Digamma |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ϝ" U+03DD Greek Small Letter Digamma |
| 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 |