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references">&#922;</a> <div class="character-sample-name">GREEK CAPITAL LETTER KAPPA</div></td></tr></tbody></table><table style="width:100%;font-size:80%;white-space:nowrap"><tbody><tr><td style="width:50%;text-align:left"></td><td style="width:50%;text-align:right"></td></tr></tbody></table> <table style="width:100%;text-align:center"><tbody><tr><td style="width:20%"><a href="/wiki/%CE%99" title="Ι"><span title="GREEK CAPITAL LETTER IOTA">← <span class="character-sample-secondary Grek">Ι</span><br /><small>[U+0399]</small></span></a> </td><td style="width:60%;font-size:110%;font-weight:bold"><a href="/wiki/Appendix:Unicode/Greek_and_Coptic" title="Appendix:Unicode/Greek and Coptic">Greek and Coptic</a> </td><td style="width:20%"><a href="/wiki/%CE%9B" title="Λ"><span title="GREEK CAPITAL LETTER LAMDA"><span class="character-sample-secondary Grek">Λ</span> →<br /><small>[U+039B]</small></span></a> </td></tr></tbody></table> </td></tr></tbody></table><style 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class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=%CE%9A&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Symbol"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><span class="headword-line"><strong class="Grek headword" lang="mul">Κ</strong></span> </p> <ol><li><span class="usage-label-sense"><span class="ib-brac label-brac">(</span><span class="ib-content label-content">textual criticism</span><span class="ib-brac label-brac">)</span></span>, the Byzantine text-type, from <i class="Polyt mention" lang="grc"><a href="/w/index.php?title=%CE%9A%CE%BF%CE%B9%CE%BD%CE%B7&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Κοινη (page does not exist)">Κοινη</a></i> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span lang="grc-Latn" class="mention-tr tr Latn">Koinē</span>, <span class="mention-gloss-double-quote">“</span><span class="mention-gloss">the common text</span><span class="mention-gloss-double-quote">”</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span>.</li></ol> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="See_also">See also</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=%CE%9A&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%9A" title="w:Κ"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/80/Wikipedia-logo-v2.svg/20px-Wikipedia-logo-v2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="15" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/80/Wikipedia-logo-v2.svg/40px-Wikipedia-logo-v2.svg.png 1.5x" data-file-width="103" data-file-height="94" /></a></span> <b class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%9A" class="extiw" title="w:Κ">Κ</a></b> on Wikipedia.<span class="interProject"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%9A" class="extiw" title="w:Κ">Wikipedia </a></span></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Ancient_Greek">Ancient Greek</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=%CE%9A&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Ancient Greek"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Etymology">Etymology</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=%CE%9A&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Etymology"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>From <span class="etyl"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenician_language" class="extiw" title="w:Phoenician language">Phoenician</a></span> <i class="Phnx mention" lang="phn"><a href="/wiki/%F0%90%A4%8A#Phoenician" title="𐤊">𐤊</a></i> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span lang="phn-Latn" class="mention-tr tr Latn">k</span>, <span class="mention-gloss-double-quote">“</span><span class="mention-gloss">kāp</span><span class="mention-gloss-double-quote">”</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Letter">Letter</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=%CE%9A&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Letter"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><span class="headword-line"><strong class="Polyt headword" lang="grc">Κ</strong> <a href="/wiki/Wiktionary:Ancient_Greek_transliteration" title="Wiktionary:Ancient Greek transliteration">•</a> (<span lang="grc-Latn" class="headword-tr tr Latn" dir="ltr">K</span>) (<i>uppercase</i>, <i>lowercase</i> <b class="Polyt" lang="grc"><a href="/wiki/%CE%BA#Ancient_Greek" title="κ">κ</a></b>)</span> </p> <ol><li>The letter <a href="/wiki/kappa" title="kappa">kappa</a> (<span class="Polyt" lang="grc"><a href="/wiki/%CE%BA%CE%AC%CF%80%CF%80%CE%B1#Ancient_Greek" title="κάππα">κάππα</a></span>), the tenth letter of the ancient <a href="/wiki/Greek_alphabet" title="Greek alphabet">Greek alphabet</a>.</li></ol> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Derived_terms">Derived terms</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=%CE%9A&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Derived terms"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><span class="ib-brac qualifier-brac">(</span><span class="ib-content qualifier-content"><a href="/wiki/Cyrillic" title="Cyrillic">Cyrillic</a></span><span class="ib-brac qualifier-brac">)</span> <span class="Cyrl" lang="mul"><a href="/wiki/%D0%9A#Translingual" title="К">К</a></span></li> <li><span class="ib-brac qualifier-brac">(</span><span class="ib-content qualifier-content"><a href="/wiki/Coptic" title="Coptic">Coptic</a></span><span class="ib-brac qualifier-brac">)</span> <span class="Copt" lang="cop"><a href="/w/index.php?title=%E2%B2%94&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Ⲕ (page does not exist)">Ⲕ</a></span></li> <li><span class="ib-brac qualifier-brac">(</span><span class="ib-content qualifier-content"><a href="/wiki/Gothic" title="Gothic">Gothic</a></span><span class="ib-brac qualifier-brac">)</span> <span class="Goth" lang="got"><a href="/wiki/%F0%90%8C%BA#Gothic" title="𐌺">𐌺</a></span></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="See_also_2">See also</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=%CE%9A&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li class="mw-empty-elt"></li> <li><span class="ib-brac qualifier-brac">(</span><span class="ib-content qualifier-content"><a href="/wiki/Appendix:Greek_script" title="Appendix:Greek script">Greek-script</a> letters</span><span class="ib-brac qualifier-brac">)</span> <span class="Grek" lang="grc"><a href="/wiki/%CE%91#Ancient_Greek" title="Α">Α</a> <a href="/wiki/%CE%B1#Ancient_Greek" title="α">α</a></span>, <span class="Grek" lang="grc"><a href="/wiki/%CE%92#Ancient_Greek" title="Β">Β</a> <a href="/wiki/%CE%B2#Ancient_Greek" title="β">β</a></span>, <span class="Grek" lang="grc"><a href="/wiki/%CE%93#Ancient_Greek" title="Γ">Γ</a> <a href="/wiki/%CE%B3#Ancient_Greek" title="γ">γ</a></span>, <span class="Grek" lang="grc"><a href="/wiki/%CE%94#Ancient_Greek" title="Δ">Δ</a> <a href="/wiki/%CE%B4#Ancient_Greek" title="δ">δ</a></span>, <span class="Grek" lang="grc"><a href="/wiki/%CE%95#Ancient_Greek" title="Ε">Ε</a> <a href="/wiki/%CE%B5#Ancient_Greek" title="ε">ε</a></span>, <span class="Grek" lang="grc"><a href="/wiki/%CE%96#Ancient_Greek" title="Ζ">Ζ</a> <a href="/wiki/%CE%B6#Ancient_Greek" title="ζ">ζ</a></span>, <span class="Grek" lang="grc"><a href="/wiki/%CE%97#Ancient_Greek" title="Η">Η</a> <a href="/wiki/%CE%B7#Ancient_Greek" title="η">η</a></span>, <span class="Grek" lang="grc"><a href="/wiki/%CE%98#Ancient_Greek" title="Θ">Θ</a> <a href="/wiki/%CE%B8#Ancient_Greek" title="θ">θ</a></span>, <span class="Grek" lang="grc"><a href="/wiki/%CE%99#Ancient_Greek" title="Ι">Ι</a> <a href="/wiki/%CE%B9#Ancient_Greek" title="ι">ι</a></span>, <span class="Grek" lang="grc"><strong class="selflink">Κ</strong> <a href="/wiki/%CE%BA#Ancient_Greek" title="κ">κ</a></span>, <span class="Grek" lang="grc"><a href="/wiki/%CE%9B#Ancient_Greek" title="Λ">Λ</a> <a href="/wiki/%CE%BB#Ancient_Greek" title="λ">λ</a></span>, <span class="Grek" lang="grc"><a href="/wiki/%CE%9C#Ancient_Greek" title="Μ">Μ</a> <a href="/wiki/%CE%BC#Ancient_Greek" title="μ">μ</a></span>, <span class="Grek" lang="grc"><a href="/wiki/%CE%9D#Ancient_Greek" title="Ν">Ν</a> <a href="/wiki/%CE%BD#Ancient_Greek" title="ν">ν</a></span>, <span class="Grek" lang="grc"><a href="/wiki/%CE%9E#Ancient_Greek" title="Ξ">Ξ</a> <a href="/wiki/%CE%BE#Ancient_Greek" title="ξ">ξ</a></span>, <span class="Grek" lang="grc"><a href="/wiki/%CE%9F#Ancient_Greek" title="Ο">Ο</a> <a href="/wiki/%CE%BF#Ancient_Greek" title="ο">ο</a></span>, <span class="Grek" lang="grc"><a href="/wiki/%CE%A0#Ancient_Greek" title="Π">Π</a> <a href="/wiki/%CF%80#Ancient_Greek" title="π">π</a></span>, <span class="Grek" lang="grc"><a href="/wiki/%CE%A1#Ancient_Greek" title="Ρ">Ρ</a> <a href="/wiki/%CF%81#Ancient_Greek" title="ρ">ρ</a></span>, <span class="Grek" lang="grc"><a href="/wiki/%CE%A3#Ancient_Greek" title="Σ">Σ</a> <a href="/wiki/%CF%83#Ancient_Greek" title="σ">σ</a> <a href="/wiki/%CF%82#Ancient_Greek" title="ς">ς</a></span>, <span class="Grek" lang="grc"><a href="/wiki/%CE%A4#Ancient_Greek" title="Τ">Τ</a> <a href="/wiki/%CF%84#Ancient_Greek" title="τ">τ</a></span>, <span class="Grek" lang="grc"><a href="/wiki/%CE%A5#Ancient_Greek" title="Υ">Υ</a> <a href="/wiki/%CF%85#Ancient_Greek" title="υ">υ</a></span>, <span class="Grek" lang="grc"><a href="/wiki/%CE%A6#Ancient_Greek" title="Φ">Φ</a> <a href="/wiki/%CF%86#Ancient_Greek" title="φ">φ</a></span>, <span class="Grek" lang="grc"><a href="/wiki/%CE%A7#Ancient_Greek" title="Χ">Χ</a> <a href="/wiki/%CF%87#Ancient_Greek" title="χ">χ</a></span>, <span class="Grek" lang="grc"><a href="/wiki/%CE%A8#Ancient_Greek" title="Ψ">Ψ</a> <a href="/wiki/%CF%88#Ancient_Greek" title="ψ">ψ</a></span>, <span class="Grek" lang="grc"><a href="/wiki/%CE%A9#Ancient_Greek" title="Ω">Ω</a> <a href="/wiki/%CF%89#Ancient_Greek" title="ω">ω</a></span></li> <li><span class="ib-brac qualifier-brac">(</span><span class="ib-content qualifier-content">non-Classical letters</span><span class="ib-brac qualifier-brac">)</span> <span class="Polyt" lang="grc"><a href="/wiki/%CF%9C#Ancient_Greek" title="Ϝ">Ϝ</a></span> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span lang="grc-Latn" class="tr Latn">W</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span> <span class="Polyt" lang="grc"><a href="/wiki/%CF%9D#Ancient_Greek" title="ϝ">ϝ</a></span> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span lang="grc-Latn" class="tr Latn">w</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span>, <span class="Polyt" lang="grc"><a href="/wiki/%CD%B6#Ancient_Greek" title="Ͷ">Ͷ</a></span> <span class="Polyt" lang="grc"><a href="/wiki/%CD%B7#Ancient_Greek" title="ͷ">ͷ</a></span>, <span class="Polyt" lang="grc"><a href="/wiki/%CD%B0#Ancient_Greek" title="Ͱ">Ͱ</a></span> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span lang="grc-Latn" class="tr Latn">H</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span> <span class="Polyt" lang="grc"><a href="/wiki/%CD%B1#Ancient_Greek" title="ͱ">ͱ</a></span> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span lang="grc-Latn" class="tr Latn">h</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span>, <span class="Polyt" lang="grc"><a href="/wiki/%CF%BA#Ancient_Greek" title="Ϻ">Ϻ</a></span> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span lang="grc-Latn" class="tr Latn">S</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span> <span class="Polyt" lang="grc"><a href="/wiki/%CF%BB#Ancient_Greek" title="ϻ">ϻ</a></span> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span lang="grc-Latn" class="tr Latn">s</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span>, <span class="Grek" lang="el"><a href="/wiki/%CF%9E#Greek" title="Ϟ">Ϟ</a></span>, <span class="Grek" lang="el"><a href="/wiki/%CF%9F#Greek" title="ϟ">ϟ</a></span>, <span class="Polyt" lang="grc"><a href="/wiki/%CF%98#Ancient_Greek" title="Ϙ">Ϙ</a></span> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span lang="grc-Latn" class="tr Latn">Q</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span> <span class="Polyt" lang="grc"><a href="/wiki/%CF%99#Ancient_Greek" title="ϙ">ϙ</a></span> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span lang="grc-Latn" class="tr Latn">q</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span>, <span class="Polyt" lang="grc"><a href="/wiki/%CD%B2#Ancient_Greek" title="Ͳ">Ͳ</a></span> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span lang="grc-Latn" class="tr Latn">S</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span> <span class="Polyt" lang="grc"><a href="/wiki/%CD%B3#Ancient_Greek" title="ͳ">ͳ</a></span> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span lang="grc-Latn" class="tr Latn">s</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span></li> <li><span class="ib-brac qualifier-brac">(</span><span class="ib-content qualifier-content">punctuation</span><span class="ib-brac qualifier-brac">)</span> <span class="None" lang="grc"><a href="/wiki/%C2%B7#Ancient_Greek" title="·">·</a></span> <span class="None" lang="grc"><a href="/wiki/;#Ancient_Greek" title=";">;</a></span></li> <li><span class="ib-brac qualifier-brac">(</span><span class="ib-content qualifier-content">diacritics</span><span class="ib-brac qualifier-brac">)</span> <a href="/wiki/%E1%BE%BF#Ancient_Greek" title="᾿">᾿</a> <span class="Polyt" lang="grc"><a href="/wiki/%E1%BF%BE#Ancient_Greek" class="mw-redirect" title="῾">῾</a></span> <span class="None" lang="grc"><a href="/wiki/%E2%97%8C%CC%81#Ancient_Greek" title="◌́">◌́</a></span> <span class="None" lang="grc"><a href="/wiki/%E2%97%8C%CC%80#Ancient_Greek" title="◌̀">◌̀</a></span> <span class="Polyt" lang="grc"><a href="/wiki/%E1%BF%80#Ancient_Greek" title="῀">῀</a></span> <span class="None" lang="grc"><a href="/wiki/%C2%A8#Ancient_Greek" class="mw-redirect" title="¨">¨</a></span></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Greek">Greek</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=%CE%9A&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Greek"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Letter_2">Letter</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=%CE%9A&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Letter"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><span class="headword-line"><strong class="Grek headword" lang="el">Κ</strong> <a href="/wiki/Wiktionary:Greek_transliteration" title="Wiktionary:Greek transliteration">•</a> (<span lang="el-Latn" class="headword-tr tr Latn" dir="ltr">K</span>) (<i>uppercase</i>, <i>lowercase</i> <b class="Grek" lang="el"><a href="/wiki/%CE%BA#Greek" title="κ">κ</a></b>)</span> </p> <ol><li>The <a href="/wiki/upper_case" title="upper case">upper case</a> letter <a href="/wiki/kappa" title="kappa">kappa</a> (<a href="/wiki/%CE%BA%CE%AC%CF%80%CE%B1" title="κάπα">κάπα</a>), the tenth letter of the modern <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_alphabet" class="extiw" title="w:Greek alphabet">Greek alphabet</a>.</li></ol> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="See_also_3">See also</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=%CE%9A&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li class="mw-empty-elt"></li> <li><span class="ib-brac qualifier-brac">(</span><span class="ib-content qualifier-content"><a href="/wiki/Appendix:Greek_script" title="Appendix:Greek script">Greek-script</a> letters</span><span class="ib-brac qualifier-brac">)</span> <span class="Grek" lang="grc"><a href="/wiki/%CE%91#Ancient_Greek" title="Α">Α</a> <a href="/wiki/%CE%B1#Ancient_Greek" title="α">α</a></span>, <span class="Grek" lang="grc"><a href="/wiki/%CE%92#Ancient_Greek" title="Β">Β</a> <a href="/wiki/%CE%B2#Ancient_Greek" title="β">β</a></span>, <span class="Grek" lang="grc"><a href="/wiki/%CE%93#Ancient_Greek" title="Γ">Γ</a> <a href="/wiki/%CE%B3#Ancient_Greek" title="γ">γ</a></span>, <span class="Grek" lang="grc"><a href="/wiki/%CE%94#Ancient_Greek" title="Δ">Δ</a> <a href="/wiki/%CE%B4#Ancient_Greek" title="δ">δ</a></span>, <span class="Grek" lang="grc"><a href="/wiki/%CE%95#Ancient_Greek" title="Ε">Ε</a> <a href="/wiki/%CE%B5#Ancient_Greek" title="ε">ε</a></span>, <span class="Grek" lang="grc"><a href="/wiki/%CE%96#Ancient_Greek" title="Ζ">Ζ</a> <a href="/wiki/%CE%B6#Ancient_Greek" title="ζ">ζ</a></span>, <span class="Grek" lang="grc"><a href="/wiki/%CE%97#Ancient_Greek" title="Η">Η</a> <a href="/wiki/%CE%B7#Ancient_Greek" title="η">η</a></span>, <span class="Grek" lang="grc"><a href="/wiki/%CE%98#Ancient_Greek" title="Θ">Θ</a> <a href="/wiki/%CE%B8#Ancient_Greek" title="θ">θ</a></span>, <span class="Grek" lang="grc"><a href="/wiki/%CE%99#Ancient_Greek" title="Ι">Ι</a> <a href="/wiki/%CE%B9#Ancient_Greek" title="ι">ι</a></span>, <span class="Grek" lang="grc"><strong class="selflink">Κ</strong> <a href="/wiki/%CE%BA#Ancient_Greek" title="κ">κ</a></span>, <span class="Grek" lang="grc"><a href="/wiki/%CE%9B#Ancient_Greek" title="Λ">Λ</a> <a href="/wiki/%CE%BB#Ancient_Greek" title="λ">λ</a></span>, <span class="Grek" lang="grc"><a href="/wiki/%CE%9C#Ancient_Greek" title="Μ">Μ</a> <a href="/wiki/%CE%BC#Ancient_Greek" title="μ">μ</a></span>, <span class="Grek" lang="grc"><a href="/wiki/%CE%9D#Ancient_Greek" title="Ν">Ν</a> <a href="/wiki/%CE%BD#Ancient_Greek" title="ν">ν</a></span>, <span class="Grek" lang="grc"><a href="/wiki/%CE%9E#Ancient_Greek" title="Ξ">Ξ</a> <a href="/wiki/%CE%BE#Ancient_Greek" title="ξ">ξ</a></span>, <span class="Grek" lang="grc"><a href="/wiki/%CE%9F#Ancient_Greek" title="Ο">Ο</a> <a href="/wiki/%CE%BF#Ancient_Greek" title="ο">ο</a></span>, <span class="Grek" lang="grc"><a href="/wiki/%CE%A0#Ancient_Greek" title="Π">Π</a> <a href="/wiki/%CF%80#Ancient_Greek" title="π">π</a></span>, <span class="Grek" lang="grc"><a href="/wiki/%CE%A1#Ancient_Greek" title="Ρ">Ρ</a> <a href="/wiki/%CF%81#Ancient_Greek" title="ρ">ρ</a></span>, <span class="Grek" lang="grc"><a href="/wiki/%CE%A3#Ancient_Greek" title="Σ">Σ</a> <a href="/wiki/%CF%83#Ancient_Greek" title="σ">σ</a> <a href="/wiki/%CF%82#Ancient_Greek" title="ς">ς</a></span>, <span class="Grek" lang="grc"><a href="/wiki/%CE%A4#Ancient_Greek" title="Τ">Τ</a> <a href="/wiki/%CF%84#Ancient_Greek" title="τ">τ</a></span>, <span class="Grek" lang="grc"><a href="/wiki/%CE%A5#Ancient_Greek" title="Υ">Υ</a> <a href="/wiki/%CF%85#Ancient_Greek" title="υ">υ</a></span>, <span class="Grek" lang="grc"><a href="/wiki/%CE%A6#Ancient_Greek" title="Φ">Φ</a> <a 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