U+03FF "Ͽ" Greek Capital Reversed Dotted Lunate Sigma Symbol Unicode Character

U+03FF "Ͽ" Greek Capital Reversed Dotted Lunate Sigma Symbol is a rarely used typographic variant within the Greek script, primarily of interest to historical linguists and scholars of ancient epigraphy. It represents a reversed form of the lunate sigma (which itself resembles the Latin letter C) with an added dot, and it was employed in certain archaic or technical writing systems, such as the Carian alphabet or as a numerical symbol in early Greek numeral notation. Despite its formal encoding in Unicode, this character sees virtually no use in modern Greek or standard text, existing mainly as a legacy symbol for specialized academic documentation of ancient inscriptions or alphabetic derivatives.

General Properties

Code Point	U+03FF
Version Added	4.1
Name	Greek Capital Reversed 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	Ͽ
HTML Hex Encoding	Ͽ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xCF 0xBF
UTF-16 Encoding	0x03FF
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000003FF
C/C++/Java Escape	\u03ff

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	"ͽ" U+037D Greek Small Reversed Dotted Lunate Sigma Symbol
Lowercase Code Point	"ͽ" U+037D Greek Small Reversed Dotted Lunate Sigma Symbol
Simple Case Folding	"ͽ" U+037D Greek Small Reversed Dotted Lunate Sigma Symbol
Case Folding	"ͽ" U+037D Greek Small Reversed 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	"ͽ" U+037D Greek Small Reversed Dotted Lunate Sigma Symbol
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ͽ" U+037D Greek Small Reversed 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