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by thaumasiotes 584 days ago
The form I gave you is the capital. It's noted in the wikipedia article, but not discussed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xi_(letter)

I spent a while browsing a Flickr group of "Greek signs", which unfortunately tended toward formality. I noticed zero examples of the joined form. There were a handful of standard Ξ, and two oddities - three examples of the letter being printed 王, and one example in which Ξ was used as the lowercase form. ( https://www.flickr.com/photos/robwallace/11888342614/in/pool... ) I guess it's easier to write than ξ is?

The letter doesn't appear to be all that common in general, unless you live in an Alexandropolis.

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Having done some more looking, I still haven't found a joined Ξ, but I have found some examples of the standard form in graffiti and handwriting (e.g. https://www.flickr.com/photos/telemax/4257624412/in/pool-gre... ). The 王 form also appears in graffiti. It's probably displacing the double-Z form.