U+1F3B "Ἳ" Greek Capital Letter Iota with Dasia and Varia Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
Ἳ
U+1F3B "Ἳ" Greek Capital Letter Iota with Dasia and Varia is a precomposed polytonic Greek character used primarily in ancient and liturgical texts to represent the Greek letter iota with a rough breathing mark (dasia, indicating an 'h' sound) and a grave accent (varia, indicating a low or falling pitch). This specific combination provides a phonetic and diacritical accuracy essential for classical and religious writing, though it is rarely encountered in modern Greek, which no longer uses such accents or breathings. The character is encoded in the Unicode Greek Extended block, allowing it to be correctly displayed and processed in digital environments that support historic Greek orthography.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F3B |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Greek Capital Letter Iota with Dasia and Varia |
| Block | Greek Extended |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "Ἱ" U+1F39 Greek Capital Letter Iota with Dasia "̀" U+0300 Combining Grave Accent |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ἳ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ἳ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xBC 0xBB |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1F3B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001F3B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1f3b |
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 | "ἳ" U+1F33 Greek Small Letter Iota with Dasia and Varia |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ἳ" U+1F33 Greek Small Letter Iota with Dasia and Varia |
| Simple Case Folding | "ἳ" U+1F33 Greek Small Letter Iota with Dasia and Varia |
| Case Folding | "ἳ" U+1F33 Greek Small Letter Iota with Dasia and Varia |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ἳ" U+1F33 Greek Small Letter Iota with Dasia and Varia |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ἳ" U+1F33 Greek Small Letter Iota with Dasia 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 |