U+1F29 "Ἡ" Greek Capital Letter Eta with Dasia Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
Ἡ
U+1F29 "Ἡ" Greek Capital Letter Eta with Dasia is a historical Greek letter used primarily in ancient and polytonic Greek orthography. It represents the capital form of the letter eta (Η) combined with a dasia, or rough breathing mark, which indicates an initial /h/ sound before the vowel. This character appears in scholarly editions of classical texts, such as those by Homer or Plato, to preserve the original pronunciation and grammatical distinctions that were lost in modern monotonic Greek. Its inclusion in Unicode allows for accurate digital representation of ancient Greek manuscripts and academic works.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F29 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Greek Capital Letter Eta with Dasia |
| Block | Greek Extended |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "Η" U+0397 Greek Capital Letter Eta "̔" U+0314 Combining Reversed Comma Above |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ἡ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ἡ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xBC 0xA9 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1F29 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001F29 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1f29 |
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 | "ἡ" U+1F21 Greek Small Letter Eta with Dasia |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ἡ" U+1F21 Greek Small Letter Eta with Dasia |
| Simple Case Folding | "ἡ" U+1F21 Greek Small Letter Eta with Dasia |
| Case Folding | "ἡ" U+1F21 Greek Small Letter Eta with Dasia |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ἡ" U+1F21 Greek Small Letter Eta with Dasia |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ἡ" U+1F21 Greek Small Letter Eta with Dasia |
| 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 |