U+0342 "͂" Combining Greek Perispomeni Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
͂
U+0342 "͂" Combining Greek Perispomeni is a diacritical mark used in ancient and polytonic Greek orthography to indicate a rising and falling pitch contour on a vowel, historically denoting a circumflex accent. It is placed above a base character and combines with it to modify pronunciation in contexts like classical texts or liturgical Greek, where it often appears on long vowels to reflect the tonal accent of Ancient Greek. This combining mark is distinct from the similar looking combining tilde and is part of the Unicode block for Greek and Coptic, serving as a vital tool for accurate representation of historical Greek writing.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0342 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Combining Greek Perispomeni |
| Block | Combining Diacritical Marks |
| General Category | Nonspacing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | Above |
| Bidirectional Class | Nonspacing Mark |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ͂ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ͂ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xCD 0x82 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0342 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000342 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0342 |