U+03FE "Ͼ" Greek Capital Dotted Lunate Sigma Symbol Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
Ͼ
U+03FE "Ͼ" Greek Capital Dotted Lunate Sigma Symbol is a typographic variant of the Greek letter sigma used primarily in ancient and medieval manuscript traditions. Unlike the standard uppercase sigma (Σ), this character features a lunar or crescent-like shape with a dot at its center, distinguishing it from related forms like the plain lunate sigma. It was employed in certain epigraphic and paleographic contexts to represent a sigma sound, often appearing in inscriptions or texts requiring specialized letter forms, and remains of interest today for historical linguistics and digital representation of archaic Greek writing.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+03FE |
| Version Added | 4.1 |
| Name | Greek Capital Dotted 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 | Ͼ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ͼ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xCF 0xBE |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x03FE |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000003FE |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u03fe |
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 | "ͼ" U+037C Greek Small Dotted Lunate Sigma Symbol |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ͼ" U+037C Greek Small Dotted Lunate Sigma Symbol |
| Simple Case Folding | "ͼ" U+037C Greek Small Dotted Lunate Sigma Symbol |
| Case Folding | "ͼ" U+037C Greek Small Dotted Lunate Sigma Symbol |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ͼ" U+037C Greek Small Dotted Lunate Sigma Symbol |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ͼ" U+037C Greek Small Dotted 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 |