U+1F1A "Ἒ" Greek Capital Letter Epsilon with Psili and Varia Unicode Character
U+1F1A "Ἒ" Greek Capital Letter Epsilon with Psili and Varia is a precomposed polytonic Greek letter used in classical and liturgical texts, combining an epsilon (Ε) with two diacritical marks: the psili (a smooth breathing mark indicating the absence of an initial 'h' sound) and the varia (a grave accent that denotes a falling pitch). This character appears in ancient Greek orthography to precisely convey pronunciation and accentuation, often in words beginning with epsilon where the syllable carries a low or falling tone following a smooth breathing. It is rarely used in modern Greek and is primarily encountered in scholarly editions of classical works, critical texts, or religious manuscripts that preserve traditional polytonic spelling conventions.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F1A |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Greek Capital Letter Epsilon with Psili and Varia |
| Block | Greek Extended |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "Ἐ" U+1F18 Greek Capital Letter Epsilon with Psili "̀" U+0300 Combining Grave Accent |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ἒ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ἒ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xBC 0x9A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1F1A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001F1A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1f1a |
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 | "ἒ" U+1F12 Greek Small Letter Epsilon with Psili and Varia |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ἒ" U+1F12 Greek Small Letter Epsilon with Psili and Varia |
| Simple Case Folding | "ἒ" U+1F12 Greek Small Letter Epsilon with Psili and Varia |
| Case Folding | "ἒ" U+1F12 Greek Small Letter Epsilon with Psili and Varia |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ἒ" U+1F12 Greek Small Letter Epsilon with Psili and Varia |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ἒ" U+1F12 Greek Small Letter Epsilon with Psili and Varia |
| 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 |