U+03B0 "ΰ" Greek Small Letter Upsilon with Dialytika and Tonos Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+03B0 "ΰ" Greek Small Letter Upsilon with Dialytika and Tonos is a composite character used in modern Greek orthography to represent the sound of the letter upsilon when it carries both a diaeresis (dialytika) and an acute accent (tonos), typically indicating that the vowel is pronounced separately from a preceding vowel and is also stressed. It appears in words like "ΰδωρ" (meaning "water") and is essential for accurate spelling and pronunciation in Greek text.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+03B0 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Greek Small Letter Upsilon with Dialytika and Tonos |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Greek Small Letter Upsilon Diaeresis Tonos |
| Block | Greek and Coptic |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ϋ" U+03CB Greek Small Letter Upsilon with Dialytika "́" U+0301 Combining Acute Accent |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ΰ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ΰ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xCE 0xB0 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x03B0 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000003B0 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u03b0 |