Greek Small Letter Sho
Part of Greek Letters
Greek Small 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+03F8
About this symbol
Sho is a letter added to the Greek alphabet for writing Bactrian, the language of the Kushan Empire in Central Asia, in the first centuries AD. It stood for the sh sound, which Greek itself did not have.
Unicode facts
- Official name
- GREEK SMALL LETTER SHO
- Type
- Lowercase letter
- Unicode block
- Greek and Coptic
- Unicode group
- Additional archaic letters for Bactrian
- Added in
- Unicode 4.0 (2003)
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