# Ϛ U+03DA GREEK LETTER STIGMA

Capital Greek stigma, a sigma-tau or cursive digamma shape used as a Greek numeral for 6.

| | |
|---|---|
| Character | `Ϛ` |
| Codepoint | U+03DA |
| Name | GREEK LETTER STIGMA |
| Block | [Greek and Coptic](https://unicodekit.com/block/greek-and-coptic) |
| Script | Greek |
| Category | Uppercase Letter (Lu) |
| Unicode version | 1.1 |
| HTML | `Ϛ` `Ϛ` |
| CSS | `\3DA` |
| JavaScript | `\u03DA` |
| UTF-8 | CF 9A |
| UTF-16 | 03DA |

## 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

## Related characters

- ϙ [U+03D9 GREEK SMALL LETTER ARCHAIC KOPPA](https://unicodekit.com/char/03D9)
- ϛ [U+03DB GREEK SMALL LETTER STIGMA](https://unicodekit.com/char/03DB)
- Ϙ [U+03D8 GREEK LETTER ARCHAIC KOPPA](https://unicodekit.com/char/03D8)
- Ϝ [U+03DC GREEK LETTER DIGAMMA](https://unicodekit.com/char/03DC)
- ϗ [U+03D7 GREEK KAI SYMBOL](https://unicodekit.com/char/03D7)
- ϝ [U+03DD GREEK SMALL LETTER DIGAMMA](https://unicodekit.com/char/03DD)
- ϖ [U+03D6 GREEK PI SYMBOL](https://unicodekit.com/char/03D6)
- Ϟ [U+03DE GREEK LETTER KOPPA](https://unicodekit.com/char/03DE)
- ϕ [U+03D5 GREEK PHI SYMBOL](https://unicodekit.com/char/03D5)
- ϟ [U+03DF GREEK SMALL LETTER KOPPA](https://unicodekit.com/char/03DF)
- ϔ [U+03D4 GREEK UPSILON WITH DIAERESIS AND HOOK SYMBOL](https://unicodekit.com/char/03D4)
- Ϡ [U+03E0 GREEK LETTER SAMPI](https://unicodekit.com/char/03E0)

Page: https://unicodekit.com/char/03DA · JSON: https://unicodekit.com/characters/03DA