# Ϛ U+03DA GREEK LETTER STIGMA

- • 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
- → [U+2185 ↅ ROMAN NUMERAL SIX LATE FORM](/unicode/U+2185.md)