U+1F53 "ὓ" Greek Small Letter Upsilon with Dasia and Varia Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1F53 "ὓ" Greek Small Letter Upsilon with Dasia and Varia is a historic Greek letter used primarily in polytonic orthography, which marks the ancient pronunciation of the vowel "upsilon" with both a rough breathing mark (dasia) and a grave accent (varia). The dasia indicates an initial "h" sound before the vowel, while the varia denotes a specific pitch accent in ancient Greek, typically used in words where the accent falls on a non-final syllable. This character is now largely obsolete in modern Greek writing, which employs monotonic accentuation, but it appears in scholarly editions of ancient texts and some liturgical or historical contexts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F53 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Greek Small Letter Upsilon 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 | "ὑ" U+1F51 Greek Small Letter Upsilon with Dasia "̀" U+0300 Combining Grave Accent |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ὓ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ὓ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xBD 0x93 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1F53 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001F53 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1f53 |
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 | "Ὓ" U+1F5B Greek Capital Letter Upsilon with Dasia and Varia |
| Simple Titlecase Code Point | "Ὓ" U+1F5B Greek Capital Letter Upsilon with Dasia and Varia |
| Uppercase Code Point | "Ὓ" U+1F5B Greek Capital Letter Upsilon with Dasia and Varia |
| Titlecase Code Point | "Ὓ" U+1F5B Greek Capital Letter Upsilon 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 |