U+0388 "Έ" Greek Capital Letter Epsilon with Tonos Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+0388 "Έ" Greek Capital Letter Epsilon with Tonos is a precomposed letter used in modern Greek orthography to represent the vowel epsilon with an accent mark, specifically the “tonos” that indicates a stressed syllable. It belongs to the Greek script block and serves as the capital form of the letter ε when it carries the acute accent in all-caps writing or in uppercase contexts, such as at the beginning of a word or in titles. This character is distinct from its lowercase counterpart, U+03AD "έ," and follows the standardized Unicode encoding that allows for correct rendering and processing of accented Greek text in digital environments.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0388 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Greek Capital Letter Epsilon with Tonos |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Greek Capital Letter Epsilon Tonos |
| Block | Greek and Coptic |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "Ε" U+0395 Greek Capital Letter Epsilon "́" U+0301 Combining Acute Accent |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Έ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Έ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xCE 0x88 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0388 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000388 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0388 |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Alphabetic |
| Uppercase | Yes |
| Simple Lowercase Code Point | "έ" U+03AD Greek Small Letter Epsilon with Tonos |
| Lowercase Code Point | "έ" U+03AD Greek Small Letter Epsilon with Tonos |
| Simple Case Folding | "έ" U+03AD Greek Small Letter Epsilon with Tonos |
| Case Folding | "έ" U+03AD Greek Small Letter Epsilon with Tonos |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "έ" U+03AD Greek Small Letter Epsilon with Tonos |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "έ" U+03AD Greek Small Letter Epsilon with Tonos |
| Script | Greek |
| Script Extensions | Greek |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| ID Start | Yes |
| XID Start | Yes |
| ID Continue | Yes |
| XID Continue | Yes |
| Alphabetic | Yes |
| Vertical Orientation | Rotated |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Alphabetic letter |
| Sentence Break | Upper |