U+1F2B "Ἣ" Greek Capital Letter Eta with Dasia and Varia Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
Ἣ
U+1F2B "Ἣ" Greek Capital Letter Eta with Dasia and Varia is a precomposed character used in polytonic Greek orthography to represent the eta vowel (Η, η) combined with two diacritical marks: the dasia, indicating a rough breathing or an initial /h/ sound, and the varia, a grave accent marking a low or falling pitch in ancient Greek pronunciation. This character is part of the Greek and Coptic block and is typically employed in scholarly texts, classical editions, or liturgical writings where precise accentuation and breathing are required to convey historical phonetics and grammar. Its existence in Unicode allows for accurate digital representation of ancient Greek texts without needing separate combining characters.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F2B |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Greek Capital Letter Eta with Dasia and Varia |
| Block | Greek Extended |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "Ἡ" U+1F29 Greek Capital Letter Eta with Dasia "̀" U+0300 Combining Grave Accent |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ἣ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ἣ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xBC 0xAB |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1F2B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001F2B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1f2b |
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 | "ἣ" U+1F23 Greek Small Letter Eta with Dasia and Varia |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ἣ" U+1F23 Greek Small Letter Eta with Dasia and Varia |
| Simple Case Folding | "ἣ" U+1F23 Greek Small Letter Eta with Dasia and Varia |
| Case Folding | "ἣ" U+1F23 Greek Small Letter Eta with Dasia and Varia |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ἣ" U+1F23 Greek Small Letter Eta with Dasia and Varia |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ἣ" U+1F23 Greek Small Letter Eta with Dasia 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 |