U+1F3C "Ἴ" Greek Capital Letter Iota with Psili and Oxia Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
Ἴ
U+1F3C "Ἴ" Greek Capital Letter Iota with Psili and Oxia is a polytonic Greek letter representing an uppercase Iota combined with two diacritical marks: a psili (smooth breathing mark) indicating the absence of an initial "h" sound, and an oxia (acute accent) denoting a high pitch or stressed syllable in ancient Greek. Historically, this character was used in classical and medieval Greek texts to specify precise pronunciation and tone, particularly in scholarly editions and liturgical writings. In modern digital contexts, it appears in historical or linguistic documents when reproducing original Greek orthography.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F3C |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Greek Capital Letter Iota with Psili and Oxia |
| 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+0301 Combining Acute Accent |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ἴ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ἴ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xBC 0xBC |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1F3C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001F3C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1f3c |
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 | "ἴ" U+1F34 Greek Small Letter Iota with Psili and Oxia |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ἴ" U+1F34 Greek Small Letter Iota with Psili and Oxia |
| Simple Case Folding | "ἴ" U+1F34 Greek Small Letter Iota with Psili and Oxia |
| Case Folding | "ἴ" U+1F34 Greek Small Letter Iota with Psili and Oxia |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ἴ" U+1F34 Greek Small Letter Iota with Psili and Oxia |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ἴ" U+1F34 Greek Small Letter Iota with Psili and Oxia |
| 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 |