Greek Capital Letter Sho
Part of Greek Letters
Greek Capital Letter Sho has no standard Windows Alt code. Copy the character directly, or use its HTML entity or Unicode value instead.
- Alt code
- None
- HTML entity
- Ϸ
- Unicode
- U+03F7
About this symbol
Sho was added to the Greek alphabet to write Bactrian, the language of the Kushan Empire in Central Asia, on coins and inscriptions from approximately the second century. Greek had no letter for the sh sound Bactrian needed.
Unicode facts
- Official name
- GREEK CAPITAL LETTER SHO
- Type
- Uppercase letter
- Unicode block
- Greek and Coptic
- Unicode group
- Additional archaic letters for Bactrian
- Added in
- Unicode 4.0 (2003)
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