U+1F19 "Ἑ" Greek Capital Letter Epsilon with Dasia Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
Ἑ
U+1F19 "Ἑ" Greek Capital Letter Epsilon with Dasia is a historical Greek letter used primarily in ancient and polytonic Greek orthography to represent the vowel epsilon (ε) with a rough breathing mark, known as dasia, which indicates an initial /h/ sound before the vowel in Ancient Greek pronunciation. This character was part of the standard writing system for classical texts, where the dasia signified aspiration, and it is often encountered in scholarly editions of Greek literature, inscriptions, and linguistic studies. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures accurate digital representation of these historically significant scripts, preserving the orthographic conventions of ancient Greek writing.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F19 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Greek Capital Letter Epsilon with Dasia |
| Block | Greek Extended |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "Ε" U+0395 Greek Capital Letter Epsilon "̔" U+0314 Combining Reversed Comma Above |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ἑ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ἑ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xBC 0x99 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1F19 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001F19 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1f19 |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Alphabetic |
| Uppercase | Yes |
| Simple Lowercase Code Point | "ἑ" U+1F11 Greek Small Letter Epsilon with Dasia |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ἑ" U+1F11 Greek Small Letter Epsilon with Dasia |
| Simple Case Folding | "ἑ" U+1F11 Greek Small Letter Epsilon with Dasia |
| Case Folding | "ἑ" U+1F11 Greek Small Letter Epsilon with Dasia |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ἑ" U+1F11 Greek Small Letter Epsilon with Dasia |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ἑ" U+1F11 Greek Small Letter Epsilon with Dasia |
| 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 | Upper |