U+1F35 "ἵ" Greek Small Letter Iota with Dasia and Oxia Unicode Character
U+1F35 "ἵ" Greek Small Letter Iota with Dasia and Oxia is a historical polytonic Greek letter that combines three distinct features: the base iota letter, a rough breathing mark called dasia that indicates an initial "h" sound, and an acute accent known as oxia that signifies a high pitch or stress. This character originates from the classical Greek writing system, where polytonic diacritics were used to represent the ancient pronunciation of vowels, though modern monotonic Greek has largely simplified such markings. Primarily appearing in scholarly texts, editions of ancient literature, and liturgical works, "ἵ" can be found in words like “ἵστημι” (to stand) or “ἵππος” (horse), serving as a precise orthographic tool for preserving the phonetic details of the Greek language.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F35 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Greek Small Letter Iota with Dasia and Oxia |
| Block | Greek Extended |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ἱ" U+1F31 Greek Small Letter Iota with Dasia "́" U+0301 Combining Acute Accent |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ἵ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ἵ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xBC 0xB5 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1F35 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001F35 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1f35 |
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 | "Ἵ" U+1F3D Greek Capital Letter Iota with Dasia and Oxia |
| Simple Titlecase Code Point | "Ἵ" U+1F3D Greek Capital Letter Iota with Dasia and Oxia |
| Uppercase Code Point | "Ἵ" U+1F3D Greek Capital Letter Iota with Dasia and Oxia |
| Titlecase Code Point | "Ἵ" U+1F3D Greek Capital Letter Iota with Dasia and Oxia |
| 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 |