U+1F69 "Ὡ" Greek Capital Letter Omega with Dasia Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
Ὡ
U+1F69 "Ὡ" Greek Capital Letter Omega with Dasia is a historical polytonic Greek letter used in ancient and medieval texts to represent a rough breathing mark (the dasia, akin to an aspirate 'h' sound) placed over the long vowel omega. This character appears primarily in scholarly editions of classical Greek literature, where it distinguishes words beginning with an aspirated omega, such as those derived from roots like "ὡς" (as, like) or "ὥρα" (time, season), from their unaspirated counterparts. Its inclusion in Unicode supports accurate representation of Greek orthography for linguistic research, liturgical manuscripts, and digital typography, preserving the nuanced pronunciation and grammatical distinctions of Ancient Greek.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F69 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Greek Capital Letter Omega with Dasia |
| 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+0314 Combining Reversed Comma Above |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ὡ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ὡ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xBD 0xA9 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1F69 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001F69 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1f69 |
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 | "ὡ" U+1F61 Greek Small Letter Omega with Dasia |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ὡ" U+1F61 Greek Small Letter Omega with Dasia |
| Simple Case Folding | "ὡ" U+1F61 Greek Small Letter Omega with Dasia |
| Case Folding | "ὡ" U+1F61 Greek Small Letter Omega with Dasia |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ὡ" U+1F61 Greek Small Letter Omega with Dasia |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ὡ" U+1F61 Greek Small Letter Omega 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 |