ϝ

See also: Ϝ, Appendix:Variations of "f", Appendix:Variations of "u", Appendix:Variations of "v", and Appendix:Variations of "y"

ϝ U+03DD, ϝ
GREEK SMALL LETTER DIGAMMA
← Ϝ
[U+03DC] 		Greek and Coptic Ϟ →
[U+03DE]

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Derived from its majuscule counterpart Ϝ, from the Phoenician letter 𐤅, waw.

Symbol

ϝ • (w)

  1. Lower case digamma, the sixth letter of the ancient Greek alphabet. Its name was probably ϝαῦ, later δίγαμμα, and it represented a voiced labial-velar approximant: /w/. It is preceded by ε and followed by ζ.

Derived terms

See also

Greek

Letter

ϝ • (ϝ) (lowercase, uppercase Ϝ) (archaic, obsolete)

  1. The letter δίγαμμα (dígamma).
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