U+03AD "έ" Greek Small Letter Epsilon with Tonos Unicode Character

U+03AD "έ" Greek Small Letter Epsilon with Tonos is a precomposed character used in modern Greek writing, representing the lower-case epsilon with a stress mark to indicate the accented or "tonos" pronunciation. This character is part of the Greek and Coptic block, and it encodes the combination of the base epsilon (ε) and a combining acute accent into a single codepoint for easier text processing. In Greek, its usage is standard for marking the stressed syllable in words, following the monotonic orthography established in the 1980s.

General Properties

Code Point	U+03AD
Version Added	1.1
Name	Greek Small Letter Epsilon with Tonos
Unicode 1.0 Name	Greek Small Letter Epsilon Tonos
Block	Greek and Coptic
General Category	Lowercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right
Decomposition Type	Canonical
Decomposition Mapping	"ε" U+03B5 Greek Small Letter Epsilon "́" U+0301 Combining Acute Accent

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	έ
HTML Hex Encoding	έ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xCE 0xAD
UTF-16 Encoding	0x03AD
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000003AD
C/C++/Java Escape	\u03ad

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check	Yes
NFKC Quick Check	Yes
Numeric Type	None
Numeric Value	NaN
Line Break	Alphabetic
Lowercase	Yes
Simple Uppercase Code Point	"Έ" U+0388 Greek Capital Letter Epsilon with Tonos
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"Έ" U+0388 Greek Capital Letter Epsilon with Tonos
Uppercase Code Point	"Έ" U+0388 Greek Capital Letter Epsilon with Tonos
Titlecase Code Point	"Έ" U+0388 Greek Capital Letter Epsilon with Tonos
Cased	Yes
Changes When Casemapped	Yes
Changes When Titlecased	Yes
Changes When Uppercased	Yes
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	Lower