U+1F52 "ὒ" Greek Small Letter Upsilon with Psili and Varia Unicode Character
U+1F52 "ὒ" Greek Small Letter Upsilon with Psili and Varia is a precomposed character used in the polytonic orthography of the Greek language, representing the letter upsilon with two diacritical marks: the psili, which indicates a smooth breathing mark (the absence of an 'h' sound), and the varia, which denotes a falling or grave accent. This combination of diacritics was historically employed in Ancient Greek texts to convey specific phonetic and tonal nuances, particularly in the context of classical scholarship, religious manuscripts, and linguistic study, though it is rarely used in modern Greek. The character is encoded in Unicode under the Greek Extended block, ensuring proper representation in digital text for academic and liturgical purposes.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F52 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Greek Small Letter Upsilon with Psili and Varia |
| Block | Greek Extended |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ὐ" U+1F50 Greek Small Letter Upsilon with Psili "̀" U+0300 Combining Grave Accent |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ὒ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ὒ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xBD 0x92 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1F52 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001F52 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1f52 |