U+1F11 "ἑ" Greek Small Letter Epsilon with Dasia Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ἑ
U+1F11 "ἑ" Greek Small Letter Epsilon with Dasia is a historically significant letter from the Greek alphabet used primarily in ancient and polytonic Greek orthography. It represents the short vowel epsilon accompanied by a dasia, or rough breathing mark, which indicates an initial /h/ sound before the vowel in ancient pronunciation. This character appears in classical texts and scholarly editions, often at the beginning of words, and is encoded in Unicode to support accurate representation of ancient Greek writing. Its inclusion allows for proper rendering of grammatical distinctions and linguistic details that are essential for philology and historical studies.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F11 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Greek Small Letter Epsilon with Dasia |
| Block | Greek Extended |
| 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+0314 Combining Reversed Comma Above |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ἑ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ἑ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xBC 0x91 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1F11 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001F11 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1f11 |
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 | "Ἑ" U+1F19 Greek Capital Letter Epsilon with Dasia |
| Simple Titlecase Code Point | "Ἑ" U+1F19 Greek Capital Letter Epsilon with Dasia |
| Uppercase Code Point | "Ἑ" U+1F19 Greek Capital Letter Epsilon with Dasia |
| Titlecase Code Point | "Ἑ" U+1F19 Greek Capital Letter Epsilon with Dasia |
| 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 |