U+03DD "ϝ" Greek Small Letter Digamma Unicode Character

U+03DD "ϝ" Greek Small Letter Digamma is a historical letter of the Greek alphabet that was used primarily in early Greek writing to represent the sound /w/, which later disappeared from most Greek dialects. It is the lowercase form of the archaic Greek letter digamma, which also served as the numeral for 6 in the ancient Greek numeral system. In modern Unicode contexts, this character is employed chiefly for scholarly publication, classical text reproduction, and linguistic analysis, appearing rarely outside of academic or historical typography.

General Properties

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

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ϝ
HTML Hex Encoding	ϝ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xCF 0x9D
UTF-16 Encoding	0x03DD
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000003DD
C/C++/Java Escape	\u03dd

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	"Ϝ" U+03DC Greek Letter Digamma
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"Ϝ" U+03DC Greek Letter Digamma
Uppercase Code Point	"Ϝ" U+03DC Greek Letter Digamma
Titlecase Code Point	"Ϝ" U+03DC Greek Letter Digamma
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