U+038E "Ύ" Greek Capital Letter Upsilon with Tonos Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+038E "Ύ" Greek Capital Letter Upsilon with Tonos is a precomposed character representing the uppercase Greek letter upsilon combined with a tonos (acute) diacritic, used primarily in modern Greek to indicate stress on the syllable containing the vowel during pronunciation. It is encoded in the Unicode Greek block and is typographically distinct from the sequence of an uppercase upsilon followed by a combining tonos, serving as a single glyph for consistent rendering in digital text. This character appears in words like "Ύδρα" (Hydra) and is essential for proper orthography in modern Greek writing, distinguishing stress placement from unstressed or differently accented forms.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+038E |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Greek Capital Letter Upsilon with Tonos |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Greek Capital Letter Upsilon Tonos |
| Block | Greek and Coptic |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "Υ" U+03A5 Greek Capital Letter Upsilon "́" U+0301 Combining Acute Accent |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ύ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ύ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xCE 0x8E |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x038E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000038E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u038e |
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 | "ύ" U+03CD Greek Small Letter Upsilon with Tonos |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ύ" U+03CD Greek Small Letter Upsilon with Tonos |
| Simple Case Folding | "ύ" U+03CD Greek Small Letter Upsilon with Tonos |
| Case Folding | "ύ" U+03CD Greek Small Letter Upsilon with Tonos |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ύ" U+03CD Greek Small Letter Upsilon with Tonos |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ύ" U+03CD Greek Small Letter Upsilon 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 |