U+1F14 "ἔ" Greek Small Letter Epsilon with Psili and Oxia Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ἔ
U+1F14 "ἔ" Greek Small Letter Epsilon with Psili and Oxia is a polytonic Greek letter used in historical and scholarly texts to represent the vowel epsilon (ε) carrying both a smooth breathing mark (psili) and an acute accent (oxia). This combination typically indicates that the epsilon begins a word with a smooth, unaspirated sound while also placing it under a high pitch or stress in the context of ancient Greek pronunciation. It is primarily employed in classical, biblical, or Byzantine Greek writing systems where multiple diacritical marks are required to convey precise prosody and grammar, and it forms part of the Unicode standard for representing such specialized orthographic features in digital text.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F14 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Greek Small Letter Epsilon with Psili and Oxia |
| 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+0301 Combining Acute Accent |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ἔ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ἔ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xBC 0x94 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1F14 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001F14 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1f14 |
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 | "Ἔ" U+1F1C Greek Capital Letter Epsilon with Psili and Oxia |
| Simple Titlecase Code Point | "Ἔ" U+1F1C Greek Capital Letter Epsilon with Psili and Oxia |
| Uppercase Code Point | "Ἔ" U+1F1C Greek Capital Letter Epsilon with Psili and Oxia |
| Titlecase Code Point | "Ἔ" U+1F1C Greek Capital Letter Epsilon with Psili and Oxia |
| 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 |