U+03FD "Ͻ" Greek Capital Reversed Lunate Sigma Symbol Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
Ͻ
U+03FD "Ͻ" Greek Capital Reversed Lunate Sigma Symbol is a rarely used typographic variant of the Greek letter sigma, originally employed in ancient Greek inscriptions as a cursive or decorative form of the lunate sigma (which resembles a Roman C). Unlike the standard capital sigma (Σ) or the final sigma (ς), this reversed version faces left, indicating a specific stylistic or regional preference in older Greek manuscript traditions. In modern coding and digital typography, it serves primarily for historical or scholarly representation of ancient texts, and it is part of the Greek and Coptic block in Unicode, with a code point value of 1021 in decimal.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+03FD |
| Version Added | 4.1 |
| Name | Greek Capital Reversed Lunate Sigma Symbol |
| Block | Greek and Coptic |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ͻ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ͻ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xCF 0xBD |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x03FD |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000003FD |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u03fd |
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 | "ͻ" U+037B Greek Small Reversed Lunate Sigma Symbol |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ͻ" U+037B Greek Small Reversed Lunate Sigma Symbol |
| Simple Case Folding | "ͻ" U+037B Greek Small Reversed Lunate Sigma Symbol |
| Case Folding | "ͻ" U+037B Greek Small Reversed Lunate Sigma Symbol |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ͻ" U+037B Greek Small Reversed Lunate Sigma Symbol |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ͻ" U+037B Greek Small Reversed Lunate Sigma Symbol |
| 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 |