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digamma

Archaic letter of the Greek alphabet

Also known as Ϝ

Instance of: Greek letter
Part of: archaic Greek alphabets
, Albanian Greek alphabet

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Digamma, or wau, is an archaic letter of the Greek alphabet. It originally stood for the sound but it has remained in use principally as a Greek numeral for 6. Whereas it was originally called waw or wau, its most common appellation in classical Greek is digamma; as a numeral, it was called episēmon during the Byzantine era and is now known as stigma after the Byzantine ligature combining σ-τ as ϛ.

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Follows: E
Unicode character: Ϝ unicode code point: 03DC · applies to part: uppercase
ϝ unicode code point: 03DD · applies to part: lowercase letter
Followed by: Ζ
Based on: 𐤅
Different from: F/f

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