U+1F3A "Ἲ" Greek Capital Letter Iota with Psili and Varia Unicode Character
U+1F3A "Ἲ" Greek Capital Letter Iota with Psili and Varia is a precomposed polytonic Greek letter that combines the capital iota (Ι) with two diacritical marks: a psili (a smooth breathing mark, indicating the absence of an initial /h/ sound) and a varia (a grave accent, indicating a falling pitch in ancient Greek prosody). This character is part of the Greek Extended block and is used in historical or liturgical texts to represent the letter iota at the beginning of a word with a specific tonal and breathing pattern, typically appearing in scholarly editions of ancient Greek literature or in Orthodox Christian manuscripts. Its inclusion in Unicode supports the precise representation of classical Greek orthography, where such combinations were essential for correct pronunciation and poetic meter.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F3A |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Greek Capital Letter Iota with Psili and Varia |
| Block | Greek Extended |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "Ἰ" U+1F38 Greek Capital Letter Iota with Psili "̀" U+0300 Combining Grave Accent |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ἲ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ἲ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xBC 0xBA |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1F3A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001F3A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1f3a |
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 | "ἲ" U+1F32 Greek Small Letter Iota with Psili and Varia |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ἲ" U+1F32 Greek Small Letter Iota with Psili and Varia |
| Simple Case Folding | "ἲ" U+1F32 Greek Small Letter Iota with Psili and Varia |
| Case Folding | "ἲ" U+1F32 Greek Small Letter Iota with Psili and Varia |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ἲ" U+1F32 Greek Small Letter Iota with Psili and Varia |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ἲ" U+1F32 Greek Small Letter Iota with Psili 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 |