U+1F68 "Ὠ" Greek Capital Letter Omega with Psili Unicode Character

U+1F68 "Ὠ" Greek Capital Letter Omega with Psili is a precomposed character used in the polytonic orthography of the Greek language, specifically representing a capital omega with a psili, or smooth breathing mark, which indicates the absence of an initial "h" sound. This character, found in the Greek Extended block of the Unicode standard, is utilized in academic and historical texts to accurately transcribe ancient Greek, where such diacritical marks were essential for pronunciation and meaning.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1F68
Version Added	1.1
Name	Greek Capital Letter Omega with Psili
Block	Greek Extended
General Category	Uppercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right
Decomposition Type	Canonical
Decomposition Mapping	"Ω" U+03A9 Greek Capital Letter Omega "̓" U+0313 Combining Comma Above

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	Ὠ
HTML Hex Encoding	Ὠ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE1 0xBD 0xA8
UTF-16 Encoding	0x1F68
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00001F68
C/C++/Java Escape	\u1f68

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	"ὠ" U+1F60 Greek Small Letter Omega with Psili
Lowercase Code Point	"ὠ" U+1F60 Greek Small Letter Omega with Psili
Simple Case Folding	"ὠ" U+1F60 Greek Small Letter Omega with Psili
Case Folding	"ὠ" U+1F60 Greek Small Letter Omega with Psili
Cased	Yes
Changes When Casefolded	Yes
Changes When Casemapped	Yes
Changes When Lowercased	Yes
Changes When NFKC Casefolded	Yes
NFKC Casefold	"ὠ" U+1F60 Greek Small Letter Omega with Psili
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ὠ" U+1F60 Greek Small Letter Omega with Psili
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