Ϝ
Digamma (Ϝ, ϝ) is an obsolete letter of the Greek alphabet and has a numerical value of 6 (ϝʹ).
History
Derived from the Phoenician alphabet letter wau, which originally meant "hook". The sign of the Greek digamma gave rise to the Latin F.
Epigraphic variants
In archaic epigraphic sources the following variants appear:
In its numerical form:
Use
When used as a numeral, digamma is written using the mark stigma (ς). When used as a letter, it has the shape of an F, which looks like the overlap of two uppercase gamma letters (Γ) (hence the name digamma= double gamma) and has the phonetic value / w/.
Greek pamphylia
There is a graphical variant Say, in Greek pamphlet: .
Pamphylian Greek is an isolated and poorly documented dialect of Ancient Greek (600 to 330 BC) spoken on the southern coast of Asia Minor.
This variant is encoded in Unicode as "Capital Pamphylia Greek letter digamma" U+0376 (Ͷ) and "Pamphylia lowercase Greek letter digamma" U+0377 (ͷ).
Not to be confused with the almost identically shaped Cyrillic letter (used among others by Russian): И and which has the phonetic value /i/ or /ɪ/.
Unicode
- Greek
Character | ||||||||
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Unicode | GREEK LETTER DIGAMMA | GREEK SMALL LETTER DIGAMMA | GREEK LETTER STIGMA | GREEK SMALL LETTER STIGMA | ||||
Codification | decimal | Hex | decimal | Hex | decimal | Hex | decimal | Hex |
Unicode | 988 | U+03DC | 989 | U+03DD | 986 | U+03DA | 987 | U+03DB |
UTF-8 | 207 156 | CF 9C | 207 157 | CF 9D | 207 154 | CF 9A | 207 155 | CF 9B |
Ref. numerical | " 988; | Ϝ | " 989; | ϝ | " 986; | Ϛ | " 987; | ϛ |
TeX | Digamma | digamma | Stigma | stigma |
Character | ||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Unicode | MATHEMATICAL BOLD CAPITAL DIGAMMA | MATHEMATICAL BOLD SMALL DIGAMMA | GREEK CAPITAL LETTER PAMPHYLIAN DIGAMMA | GREEK SMALL LETTER PAMPHYLIAN DIGAMMA | ||||
Codification | decimal | Hex | decimal | Hex | decimal | Hex | decimal | Hex |
Unicode | 120778 | U+1D7CA | 120779 | U+1D7CB | 886 | U+0376 | 887 | U+0377 |
UTF-8 | 240 157 138 | F0 9D 9F 8A | 240 157 159 139 | F0 9D 9F 8B | 205 182 | CD B6 | 205 183 | CD B7 |
Ref. numerical | "#120778; | 𝟊 | "#120779; | 𝟋 | "#886; | "x376; | "#887; | ͷ |
- Copt
Character | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|
Unicode | COPTIC CAPITAL LETTER SOU | COPTIC SMALL LETTER SOU | ||
Codification | decimal | Hex | decimal | Hex |
Unicode | 11402 | U+2C8A | 11403 | U+2C8B |
UTF-8 | 226 178 138 | E2 B2 8A | 226 178 139 | E2 B2 8B |
Ref. numerical | "#11402; | Ⲋ | "#11403; | ⲋ |
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