U+1F5B "Ὓ" Greek Capital Letter Upsilon with Dasia and Varia Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
Ὓ
U+1F5B "Ὓ" Greek Capital Letter Upsilon with Dasia and Varia is a precomposed character used in polytonic Greek orthography to represent the Greek letter upsilon with both a dasia marking rough breathing and a varia marking a high to low falling pitch accent, historically pronounced with an initial /h/ sound followed by the vowel /u/ with a falling tonal contour. This character is typically employed in ancient or liturgical Greek texts, where such diacritical combinations are necessary for accurate phonetic and grammatical representation, and it is encoded as a single codepoint in Unicode for compatibility with legacy character sets, though modern digital typing often relies on combining diacritical marks instead.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F5B |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Greek Capital Letter Upsilon with Dasia and Varia |
| Block | Greek Extended |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "Ὑ" U+1F59 Greek Capital Letter Upsilon with Dasia "̀" U+0300 Combining Grave Accent |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ὓ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ὓ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xBD 0x9B |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1F5B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001F5B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1f5b |
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 | "ὓ" U+1F53 Greek Small Letter Upsilon with Dasia and Varia |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ὓ" U+1F53 Greek Small Letter Upsilon with Dasia and Varia |
| Simple Case Folding | "ὓ" U+1F53 Greek Small Letter Upsilon with Dasia and Varia |
| Case Folding | "ὓ" U+1F53 Greek Small Letter Upsilon with Dasia and Varia |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ὓ" U+1F53 Greek Small Letter Upsilon with Dasia and Varia |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ὓ" U+1F53 Greek Small Letter Upsilon with Dasia and Varia |
| 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 |