U+03FB "ϻ" Greek Small Letter San Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+03FB "ϻ" Greek Small Letter San is a historical letter of the Greek alphabet, used primarily in the Archaic period as a variant of the letter San (Ϻ), which represented the /s/ sound in certain local Greek scripts before being largely replaced by Sigma. This lowercase form, now considered obsolete, survives only in specialized academic contexts, such as epigraphy and paleography, for the study of ancient inscriptions or in digital typographic systems that aim to accurately reproduce archaic Greek texts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+03FB |
| Version Added | 4.0 |
| Name | Greek Small Letter San |
| Block | Greek and Coptic |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ϻ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ϻ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xCF 0xBB |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x03FB |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000003FB |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u03fb |
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 | "Ϻ" U+03FA Greek Capital Letter San |
| Simple Titlecase Code Point | "Ϻ" U+03FA Greek Capital Letter San |
| Uppercase Code Point | "Ϻ" U+03FA Greek Capital Letter San |
| Titlecase Code Point | "Ϻ" U+03FA Greek Capital Letter San |
| 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 |