U+0385 "΅" Greek Dialytika Tonos Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
΅
U+0385 "΅" Greek Dialytika Tonos is a combining diacritical mark used in modern Greek writing, specifically to indicate both a diaeresis (dialytika) and an acute accent (tonos) over a vowel, most commonly the letter iota. It is applied to vowels in words where the sound requires a pause or separate pronunciation between two adjacent vowels while also marking stress, such as in the Greek word "ΐ" (pronounced like "ee"). This character is distinct from a simple diaeresis or accent alone and is encoded as a precomposed character for compatibility with established Greek typographic standards.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0385 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Greek Dialytika Tonos |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Greek Spacing Diaeresis Tonos |
| Block | Greek and Coptic |
| General Category | Modifier Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "¨" U+00A8 Diaeresis "́" U+0301 Combining Acute Accent |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ΅ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ΅ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xCE 0x85 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0385 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000385 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0385 |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Alphabetic |
| Case Ignorable | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "SP" U+0020 Space "̈" U+0308 Combining Diaeresis "́" U+0301 Combining Acute Accent |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "SP" U+0020 Space "̈" U+0308 Combining Diaeresis "́" U+0301 Combining Acute Accent |
| Script | Common |
| Script Extensions | Common |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| Diacritic | Yes |
| Vertical Orientation | Rotated |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Other |
| Sentence Break | Other |