U+1F5F "Ὗ" Greek Capital Letter Upsilon with Dasia and Perispomeni Unicode Character
U+1F5F "Ὗ" Greek Capital Letter Upsilon with Dasia and Perispomeni is a classical Greek letter used in ancient and polytonic Greek orthography, combining an uppercase Upsilon with two diacritical marks: the dasia, which indicates a rough breathing sound (like an 'h') at the beginning of a word, and the perispomeni, which marks a circumflex accent indicating a rising and falling pitch on the same syllable. This character is a specific precomposed form that represents a single grapheme in the Unicode standard for compatibility with historical Greek texts, often appearing in words where the vowel upsilon initiates a word with both aspiration and a circumflex tone, such as in personal names or literary works from the classical era. Its use today is largely confined to scholarly editions, liturgical documents, or linguistic studies of ancient Greek, as modern Greek has simplified its accentuation system.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F5F |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Greek Capital Letter Upsilon with Dasia and Perispomeni |
| 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+0342 Combining Greek Perispomeni |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ὗ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ὗ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xBD 0x9F |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1F5F |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001F5F |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1f5f |