U+03FA "Ϻ" Greek Capital Letter San Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
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U+03FA "Ϻ" Greek Capital Letter San is a historical letter of the Greek alphabet that was used primarily in the Archaic period, representing a sound similar to the voiceless alveolar sibilant, often transcribed as "s". It originates from the Phoenician letter Tsade, and its form is distinct from the more common sigma, featuring a shape resembling a modern capital "M" or a stylized double curve. San was used in various Greek dialects, most notably in Dorian inscriptions, but it gradually fell out of use as sigma became the standard letter for the /s/ sound, making it an obsolete character in classical and modern Greek.
General Properties
Code Point
U+03FA
Name
Greek Capital Letter San
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
Ϻ
HTML Hex Encoding
Ϻ
UTF-8 Encoding
0xCF 0xBA
UTF-16 Encoding
0x03FA
UTF-32 Encoding
0x000003FA
C/C++/Java Escape
\u03fa
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
Simple Lowercase Code Point
Lowercase Code Point
Simple Case Folding
Case Folding
NFKC Casefold
NFKC Simple Casefold
Script Extensions
Greek