U+0344 "̈́" Combining Greek Dialytika Tonos Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
̈́
U+0344 "̈́" Combining Greek Dialytika Tonos is a combining diacritical mark used in the polytonic orthography of the Greek language, where it represents a diaeresis placed over a vowel that also carries an acute accent. This character is applied to letters such as alpha or iota to indicate both that two adjacent vowels are to be pronounced separately (the dialytika function) and that the syllable bears a rising pitch or stress (the tonos function). It appears above the vowel and is generally encoded as part of a sequence with its base letter, allowing for the accurate rendering of ancient or liturgical Greek texts that require this specific combination of marks.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0344 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Combining Greek Dialytika Tonos |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Greek Non-Spacing Diaeresis Tonos |
| Block | Combining Diacritical Marks |
| General Category | Nonspacing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | Above |
| Bidirectional Class | Nonspacing Mark |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "̈" U+0308 Combining Diaeresis "́" U+0301 Combining Acute Accent |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ̈́ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ̈́ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xCD 0x84 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0344 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000344 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0344 |