U+1F50 "ὐ" Greek Small Letter Upsilon with Psili Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1F50 "ὐ" Greek Small Letter Upsilon with Psili is a polytonic Greek letter consisting of an upsilon combined with a psili, or smooth breathing mark, which appears as a small curved diacritic above the letter and indicates that the vowel is pronounced without an initial "h" sound in Ancient Greek. This character is part of the Unicode block for Greek Extended, which encodes precomposed forms of Greek letters with various diacritical marks used in classical and liturgical texts. In practice, it is employed in scholarly editions of Ancient Greek writings to accurately represent the original orthography, particularly in words where an initial vowel or diphthong required a smooth breathing to denote a lack of aspiration.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F50 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Greek Small Letter Upsilon with Psili |
| Block | Greek Extended |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "υ" U+03C5 Greek Small Letter Upsilon "̓" U+0313 Combining Comma Above |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ὐ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ὐ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xBD 0x90 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1F50 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001F50 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1f50 |