U+03F8 "ϸ" Greek Small Letter Sho Unicode Character

U+03F8 "ϸ" Greek Small Letter Sho is a historical letter used in the Greek script, primarily associated with the Bactrian language of ancient Central Asia. It was employed to represent a specific consonant sound, likely the postalveolar fricative /ʃ/ (like the English "sh"), and appears in inscriptions and manuscripts from the Greco-Bactrian and Indo-Greek kingdoms. Though derived from the Greek alphabet, the sho character became obsolete after the fall of these kingdoms and is no longer part of modern Greek, being recognized today mainly for scholarly purposes in epigraphy and historical linguistics.

General Properties

Code Point	U+03F8
Version Added	4.0
Name	Greek Small Letter Sho
Block	Greek and Coptic
General Category	Lowercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ϸ
HTML Hex Encoding	ϸ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xCF 0xB8
UTF-16 Encoding	0x03F8
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000003F8
C/C++/Java Escape	\u03f8

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	"Ϸ" U+03F7 Greek Capital Letter Sho
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"Ϸ" U+03F7 Greek Capital Letter Sho
Uppercase Code Point	"Ϸ" U+03F7 Greek Capital Letter Sho
Titlecase Code Point	"Ϸ" U+03F7 Greek Capital Letter Sho
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