U+1F30 "ἰ" Greek Small Letter Iota with Psili Unicode Character

U+1F30 "ἰ" Greek Small Letter Iota with Psili is a classical Greek vowel used primarily in ancient texts. It represents the iota sound accompanied by the "psili" diacritic, a smooth breathing mark that indicates the absence of an initial aspiration on the vowel. This character is a part of the Greek Extended block, helping scholars and digital typographers accurately render historical Greek orthography, especially in editions of Homeric or Attic works. Its use distinguishes it from the rough breathing variant, allowing for precise phonetic transcription in scholarly contexts.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1F30
Version Added	1.1
Name	Greek Small Letter Iota with Psili
Block	Greek Extended
General Category	Lowercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right
Decomposition Type	Canonical
Decomposition Mapping	"ι" U+03B9 Greek Small Letter Iota "̓" U+0313 Combining Comma Above

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ἰ
HTML Hex Encoding	ἰ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE1 0xBC 0xB0
UTF-16 Encoding	0x1F30
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00001F30
C/C++/Java Escape	\u1f30

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	"Ἰ" U+1F38 Greek Capital Letter Iota with Psili
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"Ἰ" U+1F38 Greek Capital Letter Iota with Psili
Uppercase Code Point	"Ἰ" U+1F38 Greek Capital Letter Iota with Psili
Titlecase Code Point	"Ἰ" U+1F38 Greek Capital Letter Iota with Psili
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