U+1F15 "ἕ" Greek Small Letter Epsilon with Dasia and Oxia Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ἕ
U+1F15 "ἕ" Greek Small Letter Epsilon with Dasia and Oxia is a precomposed glyph used in polytonic Greek orthography, combining a smooth breathing mark known as dasia with an acute accent called oxia over the lowercase epsilon. This character represents a specific pronunciation and grammatical function in ancient and liturgical Greek texts, where the dasia indicates an initial aspiration sound similar to the English letter "h," and the oxia marks a high pitch or stress on the syllable. Historically, its use preserves the complex diacritic system of Classical Greek, helping modern scholars and readers accurately reproduce the phonetic details of words from manuscripts, inscriptions, and printed editions.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F15 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Greek Small Letter Epsilon with Dasia and Oxia |
| Block | Greek Extended |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ἑ" U+1F11 Greek Small Letter Epsilon with Dasia "́" U+0301 Combining Acute Accent |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ἕ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ἕ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xBC 0x95 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1F15 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001F15 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1f15 |
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 | "Ἕ" U+1F1D Greek Capital Letter Epsilon with Dasia and Oxia |
| Simple Titlecase Code Point | "Ἕ" U+1F1D Greek Capital Letter Epsilon with Dasia and Oxia |
| Uppercase Code Point | "Ἕ" U+1F1D Greek Capital Letter Epsilon with Dasia and Oxia |
| Titlecase Code Point | "Ἕ" U+1F1D Greek Capital Letter Epsilon with Dasia 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 |