U+1F59 "Ὑ" Greek Capital Letter Upsilon with Dasia Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
Ὑ
U+1F59 "Ὑ" Greek Capital Letter Upsilon with Dasia is a historical Greek letter used in polytonic orthography, where the dasia, or rough breathing mark, indicates that the initial vowel or diphthong should be pronounced with an "h" sound, as in the English word "hat." Specifically applied to the capital letter Upsilon, this character appears in ancient and medieval Greek texts to denote the aspirated form of the vowel and is part of the Unicode block dedicated to Greek and Coptic script, ensuring proper digital representation for scholarly works, linguistics, and typography involving classical Greek language.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F59 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Greek Capital Letter Upsilon with Dasia |
| Block | Greek Extended |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "Υ" U+03A5 Greek Capital Letter Upsilon "̔" U+0314 Combining Reversed Comma Above |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ὑ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ὑ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xBD 0x99 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1F59 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001F59 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1f59 |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Alphabetic |
| Uppercase | Yes |
| Simple Lowercase Code Point | "ὑ" U+1F51 Greek Small Letter Upsilon with Dasia |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ὑ" U+1F51 Greek Small Letter Upsilon with Dasia |
| Simple Case Folding | "ὑ" U+1F51 Greek Small Letter Upsilon with Dasia |
| Case Folding | "ὑ" U+1F51 Greek Small Letter Upsilon with Dasia |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ὑ" U+1F51 Greek Small Letter Upsilon with Dasia |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ὑ" U+1F51 Greek Small Letter Upsilon with Dasia |
| 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 | Upper |