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GREEK SMALL LETTER DIGAMMA

image of Unicode Character 'GREEK SMALL LETTER DIGAMMA' (U+03DD)

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Unicode Data
Name GREEK SMALL LETTER DIGAMMA
Block Greek and Coptic
Category Letter, Lowercase [Ll]
Combine 0
BIDI Left-to-Right [L]
Mirror N
Upper case U+03DC
Title case U+03DC
Comments used as a symbol with a numeric value of 6
Version Unicode 3.0.0 (September, 1999)
Encodings
HTML Entity (decimal) ϝ
HTML Entity (hex) ϝ
How to type in Microsoft Windows Alt +03DD
UTF-8 (hex) 0xCF 0x9D (cf9d)
UTF-8 (binary) 11001111:10011101
UTF-16 (hex) 0x03DD (03dd)
UTF-16 (decimal) 989
UTF-32 (hex) 0x000003DD (03dd)
UTF-32 (decimal) 989
C/C++/Java source code "\u03DD"
Python source code u"\u03DD"
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Java Data
string.toUpperCase() Ϝ
string.toLowerCase() ϝ
Character.UnicodeBlock GREEK
Character.charCount() 1
Character.getDirectionality() DIRECTIONALITY_LEFT_TO_RIGHT [0]
Character.getNumericValue() -1
Character.getType() 2
Character.isDefined() Yes
Character.isDigit() No
Character.isIdentifierIgnorable() No
Character.isISOControl() No
Character.isJavaIdentifierPart() Yes
Character.isJavaIdentifierStart() Yes
Character.isLetter() Yes
Character.isLetterOrDigit() Yes
Character.isLowerCase() Yes
Character.isMirrored() No
Character.isSpaceChar() No
Character.isSupplementaryCodePoint() No
Character.isTitleCase() No
Character.isUnicodeIdentifierPart() Yes
Character.isUnicodeIdentifierStart() Yes
Character.isUpperCase() No
Character.isValidCodePoint() Yes
Character.isWhitespace() No

ϝ

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Derived from its majuscule counterpart Ϝ, from the Phoenician letter 𐤅waw.

Symbol

ϝ

  1. Lower case digamma, the sixth letter of the ancient Greek alphabet. Its name was probably ϝαῦ, later δίγαμμα, and it represented a voiced labial-velar approximant:IPA/w/. It is preceded by ε and followed by ζ.

Derived terms

See also


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