Unicode Character 'GREEK LETTER STIGMA' (U+03DA)

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Unicode Data
Name GREEK LETTER STIGMA
Block Greek and Coptic
Category Letter, Uppercase [Lu]
Combine 0
BIDI Left-to-Right [L]
Mirror N
Old name GREEK CAPITAL LETTER STIGMA
Lower case U+03DB
Comments 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
See Also roman numeral six late form U+2185
Version Unicode 1.1.0 (June, 1993)
Encodings
HTML Entity (decimal) Ϛ
HTML Entity (hex) Ϛ
How to type in Microsoft Windows Alt +03DA
UTF-8 (hex) 0xCF 0x9A (cf9a)
UTF-8 (binary) 11001111:10011010
UTF-16 (hex) 0x03DA (03da)
UTF-16 (decimal) 986
UTF-32 (hex) 0x000003DA (03da)
UTF-32 (decimal) 986
C/C++/Java source code "\u03DA"
Python source code u"\u03DA"
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Java Data
string.toUpperCase() Ϛ
string.toLowerCase() ϛ
Character.UnicodeBlock GREEK
Character.charCount() 1
Character.getDirectionality() DIRECTIONALITY_LEFT_TO_RIGHT [0]
Character.getNumericValue() -1
Character.getType() 1
Character.isDefined() Yes
Character.isDigit() No
Character.isIdentifierIgnorable() No
Character.isISOControl() No
Character.isJavaIdentifierPart() Yes
Character.isJavaIdentifierStart() Yes
Character.isLetter() Yes
Character.isLetterOrDigit() Yes
Character.isLowerCase() No
Character.isMirrored() No
Character.isSpaceChar() No
Character.isSupplementaryCodePoint() No
Character.isTitleCase() No
Character.isUnicodeIdentifierPart() Yes
Character.isUnicodeIdentifierStart() Yes
Character.isUpperCase() Yes
Character.isValidCodePoint() Yes
Character.isWhitespace() No