Greek Capital Letter San
Part of Greek Letters
Greek Capital Letter San has no standard Windows Alt code. Copy the character directly, or use its HTML entity or Unicode value instead.
- Alt code
- None
- HTML entity
- Ϻ
- Unicode
- U+03FA
About this symbol
San was an early Greek letter for an s sound, shaped like an M, used in Corinth and a few other cities instead of sigma. It lingered in a nickname: horses branded with san were called samphoras, a word found in the comedies of Aristophanes.
Unicode facts
- Official name
- GREEK CAPITAL LETTER SAN
- Type
- Uppercase letter
- Unicode block
- Greek and Coptic
- Unicode group
- Archaic letters
- Added in
- Unicode 4.0 (2003)
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