U+1F12 "ἒ" Greek Small Letter Epsilon with Psili and Varia Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ἒ
U+1F12 "ἒ" Greek Small Letter Epsilon with Psili and Varia is a precomposed Greek letter used in the polytonic orthography of Ancient Greek, combining the epsilon vowel with the psili (smooth breathing mark) and the varia (grave accent) diacritics, indicating a smooth initial breath followed by a low or falling pitch on the vowel. It belongs to the Greek Extended block and is commonly found in scholarly editions of classical texts, liturgical materials, and linguistic discussions of Ancient Greek prosody. This character allows for precise phonetic and tonal representation without requiring separate combining diacritics, ensuring correct rendering in digital typography when properly supported by fonts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F12 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Greek Small Letter Epsilon with Psili and Varia |
| Block | Greek Extended |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ἐ" U+1F10 Greek Small Letter Epsilon with Psili "̀" U+0300 Combining Grave Accent |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ἒ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ἒ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xBC 0x92 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1F12 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001F12 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1f12 |
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 | "Ἒ" U+1F1A Greek Capital Letter Epsilon with Psili and Varia |
| Simple Titlecase Code Point | "Ἒ" U+1F1A Greek Capital Letter Epsilon with Psili and Varia |
| Uppercase Code Point | "Ἒ" U+1F1A Greek Capital Letter Epsilon with Psili and Varia |
| Titlecase Code Point | "Ἒ" U+1F1A Greek Capital Letter Epsilon with Psili and Varia |
| 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 |