U+03F7 "Ϸ" Greek Capital Letter Sho Unicode Character

U+03F7 "Ϸ" Greek Capital Letter Sho is a letter used in the Bactrian language, which was spoken in the region of Bactria, located in present-day Afghanistan and Tajikistan. This character represents a sound similar to the English "sh" and is part of the Coptic and Old South Arabian script influences found in the Bactrian alphabet. It was added to Unicode in version 4.0 in 2003 to support historical and linguistic documentation of the Bactrian language, and it appears only in uppercase form, with its lowercase counterpart being U+03F8 "ϸ" Greek Small Letter Sho.

General Properties

Code Point	U+03F7
Version Added	4.0
Name	Greek Capital Letter Sho
Block	Greek and Coptic
General Category	Uppercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	Ϸ
HTML Hex Encoding	Ϸ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xCF 0xB7
UTF-16 Encoding	0x03F7
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000003F7
C/C++/Java Escape	\u03f7

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	"ϸ" U+03F8 Greek Small Letter Sho
Lowercase Code Point	"ϸ" U+03F8 Greek Small Letter Sho
Simple Case Folding	"ϸ" U+03F8 Greek Small Letter Sho
Case Folding	"ϸ" U+03F8 Greek Small Letter Sho
Cased	Yes
Changes When Casefolded	Yes
Changes When Casemapped	Yes
Changes When Lowercased	Yes
Changes When NFKC Casefolded	Yes
NFKC Casefold	"ϸ" U+03F8 Greek Small Letter Sho
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ϸ" U+03F8 Greek Small Letter Sho
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