U+1F1B "Ἓ" Greek Capital Letter Epsilon with Dasia and Varia Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
Ἓ
U+1F1B "Ἓ" Greek Capital Letter Epsilon with Dasia and Varia is a precomposed polytonic Greek letter used in ancient and liturgical Greek orthography to represent the vowel epsilon (Εε). It combines a rough breathing mark (dasia, indicating an /h/ sound) and a grave accent (varia, indicating a low or falling tone) over the capital epsilon, reflecting the complex pitch and aspiration system of classical Greek. This character is primarily encountered in scholarly editions of ancient texts, such as those by Homer or the Greek New Testament, where accurate diacritical representation is essential for pronunciation and grammatical interpretation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F1B |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Greek Capital Letter Epsilon with Dasia and Varia |
| Block | Greek Extended |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "Ἑ" U+1F19 Greek Capital Letter Epsilon with Dasia "̀" U+0300 Combining Grave Accent |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ἓ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ἓ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xBC 0x9B |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1F1B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001F1B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1f1b |
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 | "ἓ" U+1F13 Greek Small Letter Epsilon with Dasia and Varia |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ἓ" U+1F13 Greek Small Letter Epsilon with Dasia and Varia |
| Simple Case Folding | "ἓ" U+1F13 Greek Small Letter Epsilon with Dasia and Varia |
| Case Folding | "ἓ" U+1F13 Greek Small Letter Epsilon with Dasia and Varia |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ἓ" U+1F13 Greek Small Letter Epsilon with Dasia and Varia |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ἓ" U+1F13 Greek Small Letter Epsilon with Dasia 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 |