U+03F6 "϶" Greek Reversed Lunate Epsilon Symbol Unicode Character

U+03F6 "϶" Greek Reversed Lunate Epsilon Symbol is a variant of the Greek letter epsilon used in ancient and technical contexts, specifically representing a reversed or mirrored version of the lunate epsilon shape that resembles a half-moon or crescent. It is primarily employed in Greek epigraphy and historical typography to denote the phonetic value of a short or unsounded e, often appearing as a numerical symbol in the ancient Greek alphabetic numeral system where it stands for the number 5. This character is distinct from the standard Greek epsilon and the lunate epsilon due to its reversed orientation, which faces left instead of right, making it a specialized glyph for scholarly and linguistic documentation of early Greek scripts.

General Properties

Code Point	U+03F6
Version Added	3.2
Name	Greek Reversed Lunate Epsilon Symbol
Block	Greek and Coptic
General Category	Math Symbol
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Other Neutral

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	϶
HTML Hex Encoding	϶
UTF-8 Encoding	0xCF 0xB6
UTF-16 Encoding	0x03F6
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000003F6
C/C++/Java Escape	\u03f6

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
Script	Greek
Script Extensions	Greek
Indic Syllabic Category	Other
Math	Yes
Vertical Orientation	Rotated
Grapheme Base	Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break	Other
Word Break	Other
Sentence Break	Other