U+037A "ͺ" Greek Ypogegrammeni Unicode Character

U+037A "ͺ" Greek Ypogegrammeni is a combining diacritical mark used in ancient and liturgical Greek text, appearing as a small, subscript iota beneath a vowel or at the end of a word. It originated as a phonetic indicator for a long or lost iota sound, particularly in the dative case, and is historically associated with the iota subscript, though it is encoded as a separate, spacing character for digital representation. While obsolete in modern Greek, it remains essential for the accurate rendering and scholarly analysis of classical and religious manuscripts.

General Properties

Code Point	U+037A
Version Added	1.1
Name	Greek Ypogegrammeni
Unicode 1.0 Name	Greek Spacing Iota Below
Block	Greek and Coptic
General Category	Modifier Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right
Decomposition Type	Compat
Decomposition Mapping	"SP" U+0020 Space "ͅ" U+0345 Combining Greek Ypogegrammeni

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ͺ
HTML Hex Encoding	ͺ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xCD 0xBA
UTF-16 Encoding	0x037A
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000037A
C/C++/Java Escape	\u037a

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check	Yes
NFD Quick Check	Yes
Numeric Type	None
Numeric Value	NaN
Line Break	Alphabetic
Lowercase	Yes
Other Lowercase	Yes
Case Ignorable	Yes
Cased	Yes
Changes When NFKC Casefolded	Yes
NFKC Casefold	"SP" U+0020 Space "ι" U+03B9 Greek Small Letter Iota
NFKC Simple Casefold	"SP" U+0020 Space "ι" U+03B9 Greek Small Letter Iota
Script	Greek
Script Extensions	Greek
Indic Syllabic Category	Other
ID Start	Yes
ID Continue	Yes
Diacritic	Yes
Alphabetic	Yes
Vertical Orientation	Rotated
Grapheme Base	Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break	Other
Word Break	Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break	Lower