U+1F60 "ὠ" Greek Small Letter Omega with Psili Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1F60 "ὠ" Greek Small Letter Omega with Psili is a polytonic Greek letter representing the long omega vowel with a psili, or smooth breathing mark, that indicates the absence of an initial aspiration sound in ancient Greek. This character is used in scholarly editions of classical texts to preserve the precise pronunciation and accentuation of words, particularly at the beginning of a syllable or word where the breathing mark clarifies whether a rough or smooth sound should be applied. It belongs to the Greek and Coptic block of Unicode and is distinct from the standard Greek omega without diacritics, playing a key role in accurately rendering ancient Greek orthography for linguistic, historical, and theological studies.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F60 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Greek Small Letter Omega with Psili |
| Block | Greek Extended |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ω" U+03C9 Greek Small Letter Omega "̓" U+0313 Combining Comma Above |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ὠ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ὠ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xBD 0xA0 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1F60 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001F60 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1f60 |
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 | "Ὠ" U+1F68 Greek Capital Letter Omega with Psili |
| Simple Titlecase Code Point | "Ὠ" U+1F68 Greek Capital Letter Omega with Psili |
| Uppercase Code Point | "Ὠ" U+1F68 Greek Capital Letter Omega with Psili |
| Titlecase Code Point | "Ὠ" U+1F68 Greek Capital Letter Omega with Psili |
| 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 |