U+1F22 "ἢ" Greek Small Letter Eta with Psili and Varia Unicode Character

U+1F22 "ἢ" Greek Small Letter Eta with Psili and Varia is a precomposed polytonic Greek letter that combines the short, smooth breathing mark called psili with the grave accent known as varia. This character represents a specific phonemic and grammatical nuance in ancient Greek, where the grave accent typically occurs on the final syllable of a word unless a pause or a punctuation mark follows, indicating a lower pitch than the acute accent. Its encoding allows digital text to accurately render the complex diacritical system of ancient Greek manuscripts and scholarly editions.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1F22
Version Added	1.1
Name	Greek Small Letter Eta with Psili and Varia
Block	Greek Extended
General Category	Lowercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right
Decomposition Type	Canonical
Decomposition Mapping	"ἠ" U+1F20 Greek Small Letter Eta with Psili "̀" U+0300 Combining Grave Accent

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ἢ
HTML Hex Encoding	ἢ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE1 0xBC 0xA2
UTF-16 Encoding	0x1F22
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00001F22
C/C++/Java Escape	\u1f22

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check	Yes
NFKC Quick Check	Yes
Numeric Type	None
Numeric Value	NaN
Line Break	Alphabetic
Lowercase	Yes
Simple Uppercase Code Point	"Ἢ" U+1F2A Greek Capital Letter Eta with Psili and Varia
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"Ἢ" U+1F2A Greek Capital Letter Eta with Psili and Varia
Uppercase Code Point	"Ἢ" U+1F2A Greek Capital Letter Eta with Psili and Varia
Titlecase Code Point	"Ἢ" U+1F2A Greek Capital Letter Eta with Psili and Varia
Cased	Yes
Changes When Casemapped	Yes
Changes When Titlecased	Yes
Changes When Uppercased	Yes
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	Lower