U+03CE "ώ" Greek Small Letter Omega with Tonos Unicode Character

U+03CE "ώ" Greek Small Letter Omega with Tonos is the final letter of the Greek alphabet, omega, combined with a tonos accent that marks a stressed syllable in modern Greek orthography. This character is part of the Greek and Coptic block and is used primarily in written Greek to indicate pronunciation, often appearing at the end of words such as "καλώ" (good) or "αυτώ" (himself). Its inclusion in Unicode ensures consistent representation across digital platforms for both academic and everyday use in the Greek language.

General Properties

Code Point	U+03CE
Version Added	1.1
Name	Greek Small Letter Omega with Tonos
Unicode 1.0 Name	Greek Small Letter Omega Tonos
Block	Greek and Coptic
General Category	Lowercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right
Decomposition Type	Canonical
Decomposition Mapping	"ω" U+03C9 Greek Small Letter Omega "́" U+0301 Combining Acute Accent

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ώ
HTML Hex Encoding	ώ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xCF 0x8E
UTF-16 Encoding	0x03CE
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000003CE
C/C++/Java Escape	\u03ce

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	"Ώ" U+038F Greek Capital Letter Omega with Tonos
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"Ώ" U+038F Greek Capital Letter Omega with Tonos
Uppercase Code Point	"Ώ" U+038F Greek Capital Letter Omega with Tonos
Titlecase Code Point	"Ώ" U+038F Greek Capital Letter Omega 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