U+1F54 "ὔ" Greek Small Letter Upsilon with Psili and Oxia Unicode Character
U+1F54 "ὔ" Greek Small Letter Upsilon with Psili and Oxia is a historical Greek letter used in polytonic orthography, combining a smooth breathing mark, known as psili, and an acute accent, called oxia, on the vowel upsilon. This character is employed in ancient and liturgical Greek texts to indicate specific pronunciation and tonal nuances that are no longer used in modern standard Greek. It is encoded in the Unicode block for Greek and Coptic, serving as a precise representation for scholars, linguists, and typographers who require accurate rendering of classical Greek manuscripts or religious writings. The character helps preserve the phonological distinctions of ancient Greek, such as aspiration and pitch accent, within digital and print media.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F54 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Greek Small Letter Upsilon with Psili and Oxia |
| 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+0301 Combining Acute Accent |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ὔ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ὔ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xBD 0x94 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1F54 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001F54 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1f54 |