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Sampi, uppercase Ͳ, lowercase ͳ; variant uppercase Ϡ, variant lowercase ϡ, is an archaic letter of the. It was used in addition to the modern 24 letters of the alphabet to denote some type of a sound, probably [ss] or [ts], in some eastern  dialects of ancient Greek in the 6th and 5th centuries BC. It remained in use as a numeral symbol for 900 in the alphabetic ("") system of. Its modern (Ϡ, ϡ) shape, which resembles a π inclining to the right with a longish curved cross-stroke, developed during its use as a numeral in handwriting of the  era. Its current name, sampi, originally probably meant "san pi", i.e. "like a pi", and is also of medieval origin. The letter's early name in antiquity is not known. It has been proposed that sampi was a descendant of the archaic letter san, which was originally shaped like an M and denoted the sound [s] in some other dialects. Besides variant san, other variant names that have been proposed for sampi include parakyisma and angma, while other historically attested variant terms for it are enacosis, sincope, and charaktir.

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