U+1F2C "Ἤ" Greek Capital Letter Eta with Psili and Oxia Unicode Character
U+1F2C "Ἤ" Greek Capital Letter Eta with Psili and Oxia is a precomposed glyph used in polytonic Greek orthography, combining the capital letter eta (Η) with the psili diacritic, indicating a smooth breathing mark, and the oxia diacritic, representing an acute accent. This character historically appears in ancient and liturgical Greek texts to denote a specific pronunciation where the vowel eta is both unaspirated at the beginning of a word and carries a high pitch or stress. As part of the Greek and Coptic block in Unicode, it serves to preserve the rich accentual and breathing system of classical Greek typography, allowing modern digital representation of scholarly, religious, or linguistic works that require precise diacritic combinations.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F2C |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Greek Capital Letter Eta with Psili and Oxia |
| 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+0301 Combining Acute Accent |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ἤ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ἤ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xBC 0xAC |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1F2C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001F2C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1f2c |
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 | "ἤ" U+1F24 Greek Small Letter Eta with Psili and Oxia |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ἤ" U+1F24 Greek Small Letter Eta with Psili and Oxia |
| Simple Case Folding | "ἤ" U+1F24 Greek Small Letter Eta with Psili and Oxia |
| Case Folding | "ἤ" U+1F24 Greek Small Letter Eta with Psili and Oxia |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ἤ" U+1F24 Greek Small Letter Eta with Psili and Oxia |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ἤ" U+1F24 Greek Small Letter Eta with Psili 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 |