Greek Letter Stigma
Part of Greek Letters
Greek Letter Stigma has no standard Windows Alt code. Copy the character directly, or use its HTML entity or Unicode value instead.
- Alt code
- None
- HTML entity
- Ϛ
- Unicode
- U+03DA
About this symbol
Stigma joins the letters sigma and tau, στ, into one sign. Medieval scribes used it in place of digamma as the numeral for 6, because the two looked alike in their handwriting.
Unicode facts
- Official name
- GREEK LETTER STIGMA
- Type
- Uppercase letter
- Unicode block
- Greek and Coptic
- Unicode group
- Archaic letters
- Added in
- Unicode 1.1 (1993)
- Unicode notes
- Apparently in origin a cursive form of digamma
- The name “stigma” originally applied to a medieval sigma-tau ligature, whose shape was confusably similar to the cursive digamma
- Used as a symbol with a numeric value of 6
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