San (letter)

Conversely, Greek xi (Ξ) got its shape and position from samekh (𐤎), but its name and sound value from shin.

In Sikyon, it was retained as a symbolic mark of the city used on coin inscriptions, in the same way that archaic koppa (Ϙ) was used by Corinth, and a special form of beta by Byzantium).

It initially retained its M-shape in the archaic Etruscan alphabet, but from the 6th century BC changing its aspect to a shape similar to that of the d-rune ᛞ.

"Name: Θ-Ρ-Α-Σ-Υ-Μ-Α-Χ-Ο-Σ, Birthplace: Chalcedon; profession: wisdom" A unique letter variant, shaped Ͷ (similar to modern Cyrillic И, but with a slight leftward bend)[1]: 212 ff.

[6] The letter has been represented in modern scholarly transcriptions of the Mantinea inscription by ⟨ś⟩ (s with an acute accent) or by ⟨σ̱⟩ (sigma with a macron underneath).

[7] Note, however, that the same symbol is used to denote the unrelated letter waw (/w/) in Pamphylia (the "Pamphylian digamma") and was also the form of beta (/b/) used in Melos.

The Ionic letter sampi (Ͳ), which later gave rise to the numeral symbol (ϡ = 900) may also be a continuation of san, although it did not have the same alphabetic position.

In the Greek script used for writing the Bactrian language, there existed the letter Ϸ, which apparently stood for the sound /ʃ/ (transliterated as š), and has been named "sho" in recent times.

[citation needed]) San is encoded in Unicode, while the Arcadian "tsan" variant is unified with the identical-looking Pamphylian Digamma since version 5.1.