U+1F1C "Ἔ" Greek Capital Letter Epsilon with Psili and Oxia Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
Ἔ
U+1F1C "Ἔ" Greek Capital Letter Epsilon with Psili and Oxia is a historic Greek letter used in polytonic orthography, combining a smooth breathing mark (psili) and an acute accent (oxia) over the capital epsilon. It represents the initial vowel sound in ancient Greek words like "Ἔρως" (Eros), indicating both the absence of rough breathing and a rising pitch accent. This character is part of the Greek and Coptic block in Unicode and is essential for accurately rendering classical texts and inscriptions, though it is rarely used in modern Greek writing.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F1C |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Greek Capital Letter Epsilon with Psili and Oxia |
| 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+0301 Combining Acute Accent |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ἔ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ἔ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xBC 0x9C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1F1C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001F1C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1f1c |
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 | "ἔ" U+1F14 Greek Small Letter Epsilon with Psili and Oxia |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ἔ" U+1F14 Greek Small Letter Epsilon with Psili and Oxia |
| Simple Case Folding | "ἔ" U+1F14 Greek Small Letter Epsilon with Psili and Oxia |
| Case Folding | "ἔ" U+1F14 Greek Small Letter Epsilon with Psili and Oxia |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ἔ" U+1F14 Greek Small Letter Epsilon with Psili and Oxia |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ἔ" U+1F14 Greek Small Letter Epsilon with Psili and Oxia |
| 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 |