U+1F32 "ἲ" Greek Small Letter Iota with Psili and Varia Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ἲ
U+1F32 "ἲ" Greek Small Letter Iota with Psili and Varia is a polytonic Greek letter used primarily in ancient or liturgical Greek texts, representing a short iota sound marked with both a psili (smooth breathing mark, indicating the absence of an initial 'h' sound) and a varia (grave accent, indicating a particular tone or pitch on the vowel). This character belongs to the Greek Extended block of Unicode and is typically found in scholarly editions of classical works, poetic contexts, or religious manuscripts where precise pronunciation and accentuation are recorded. Its encoding ensures that digital representations of historical Greek retain the full diacritic system necessary for accurate linguistic and philological study.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F32 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Greek Small Letter Iota with Psili and Varia |
| Block | Greek Extended |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ἰ" U+1F30 Greek Small Letter Iota with Psili "̀" U+0300 Combining Grave Accent |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ἲ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ἲ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xBC 0xB2 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1F32 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001F32 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1f32 |
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 | "Ἲ" U+1F3A Greek Capital Letter Iota with Psili and Varia |
| Simple Titlecase Code Point | "Ἲ" U+1F3A Greek Capital Letter Iota with Psili and Varia |
| Uppercase Code Point | "Ἲ" U+1F3A Greek Capital Letter Iota with Psili and Varia |
| Titlecase Code Point | "Ἲ" U+1F3A Greek Capital Letter Iota with Psili and Varia |
| 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 |