U+1F1D "Ἕ" Greek Capital Letter Epsilon with Dasia and Oxia Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
Ἕ
U+1F1D "Ἕ" Greek Capital Letter Epsilon with Dasia and Oxia is a precomposed character used in ancient Greek polytonic orthography, combining an uppercase epsilon with two diacritical marks: the dasia, which represents a rough breathing sound similar to an 'h' sound, and the oxia, an acute accent indicating a high pitch tone on that vowel. This character appears in classical and Byzantine Greek texts where precise pronunciation, including syllable stress and breathy onset, was recorded, though it is rarely encountered in modern Greek, which uses simpler monotonic orthography. It occupies the Unicode block Greek Extended and is historically significant for the study of ancient linguistics and textual criticism.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F1D |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Greek Capital Letter Epsilon with Dasia and Oxia |
| 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+0301 Combining Acute Accent |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ἕ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ἕ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xBC 0x9D |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1F1D |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001F1D |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1f1d |
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 | "ἕ" U+1F15 Greek Small Letter Epsilon with Dasia and Oxia |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ἕ" U+1F15 Greek Small Letter Epsilon with Dasia and Oxia |
| Simple Case Folding | "ἕ" U+1F15 Greek Small Letter Epsilon with Dasia and Oxia |
| Case Folding | "ἕ" U+1F15 Greek Small Letter Epsilon with Dasia and Oxia |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ἕ" U+1F15 Greek Small Letter Epsilon with Dasia and Oxia |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ἕ" U+1F15 Greek Small Letter Epsilon with Dasia 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 |