U+1F2A "Ἢ" Greek Capital Letter Eta with Psili and Varia Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
Ἢ
U+1F2A "Ἢ" Greek Capital Letter Eta with Psili and Varia is a polytonic Greek letter used in ancient Greek text to represent the long vowel eta (Η, η) with two diacritical marks. The psili, a smooth breathing mark, indicates that the vowel is pronounced without an initial aspiration, while the varia, or grave accent, signifies a lower or falling pitch on that syllable. This character is part of the Unicode Greek Extended block and is specifically employed in scholarly editions of classical Greek literature and inscriptions where precise accentuation and breathing are preserved for accurate phonetic and grammatical analysis.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F2A |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Greek Capital Letter Eta with Psili and Varia |
| Block | Greek Extended |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "Ἠ" U+1F28 Greek Capital Letter Eta with Psili "̀" U+0300 Combining Grave Accent |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ἢ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ἢ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xBC 0xAA |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1F2A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001F2A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1f2a |
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 | "ἢ" U+1F22 Greek Small Letter Eta with Psili and Varia |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ἢ" U+1F22 Greek Small Letter Eta with Psili and Varia |
| Simple Case Folding | "ἢ" U+1F22 Greek Small Letter Eta with Psili and Varia |
| Case Folding | "ἢ" U+1F22 Greek Small Letter Eta with Psili and Varia |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ἢ" U+1F22 Greek Small Letter Eta with Psili and Varia |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ἢ" U+1F22 Greek Small Letter Eta with Psili 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 |