Kai (abbreviation)

Kai (abbreviation)

The kai symbol (Greek: uppercase unicode|Ϗ, lowercase unicode|ϗ; Coptic: unicode|), formed from kappa (κ) with an extra lower stroke, is sometimes used in Greek and Coptic as an abbreviation for the word καί, "and". It may occur with the varia above it: unicode|ϗ̀.

This is similar to the ampersand (&) used in the Latin alphabet, and in fact the ampersand is also used in Greek for the same function.

External links

* [http://www.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/docs/n3122.pdf Proposal to encode the uppercase letter]


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