U+03F3 "ϳ" Greek Letter Yot Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+03F3 "ϳ" Greek Letter Yot is a lowercase letter used primarily in the Greek script to represent a consonantal y sound, similar to the English letter Y. It was historically employed in some dialects of Ancient Greek and later revived in scholarly contexts for transliterating Semitic or other foreign words. This character is distinct from the vowel iota (ι) and is encoded separately in Unicode to support specific linguistic and historical notation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+03F3 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Greek Letter Yot |
| Block | Greek and Coptic |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ϳ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ϳ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xCF 0xB3 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x03F3 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000003F3 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u03f3 |
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 | "Ϳ" U+037F Greek Capital Letter Yot |
| Simple Titlecase Code Point | "Ϳ" U+037F Greek Capital Letter Yot |
| Uppercase Code Point | "Ϳ" U+037F Greek Capital Letter Yot |
| Titlecase Code Point | "Ϳ" U+037F Greek Capital Letter Yot |
| 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 |
| Soft Dotted | Yes |
| Alphabetic | Yes |
| Vertical Orientation | Rotated |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Alphabetic letter |
| Sentence Break | Lower |