U+1F43 "ὃ" Greek Small Letter Omicron with Dasia and Varia Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1F43 "ὃ" Greek Small Letter Omicron with Dasia and Varia is a precomposed character in the Greek and Coptic block, representing the Greek letter omicron combined with two diacritical marks: a dasia (rough breathing mark, indicating an initial /h/ sound in ancient Greek) and a varia (grave accent, indicating a low pitch or stress in polytonic orthography). This character is used primarily in historical or academic contexts to transcribe ancient Greek texts with precise tonal and breath marking, allowing for accurate representation of pronunciation as codified in Byzantine and classical scholarship.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F43 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Greek Small Letter Omicron with Dasia and Varia |
| Block | Greek Extended |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ὁ" U+1F41 Greek Small Letter Omicron with Dasia "̀" U+0300 Combining Grave Accent |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ὃ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ὃ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xBD 0x83 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1F43 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001F43 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1f43 |
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 | "Ὃ" U+1F4B Greek Capital Letter Omicron with Dasia and Varia |
| Simple Titlecase Code Point | "Ὃ" U+1F4B Greek Capital Letter Omicron with Dasia and Varia |
| Uppercase Code Point | "Ὃ" U+1F4B Greek Capital Letter Omicron with Dasia and Varia |
| Titlecase Code Point | "Ὃ" U+1F4B Greek Capital Letter Omicron with Dasia 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 |