U+1F6A "Ὢ" Greek Capital Letter Omega with Psili and Varia Unicode Character
U+1F6A "Ὢ" Greek Capital Letter Omega with Psili and Varia is a polytonic Greek letter used in ancient and liturgical texts to represent the long omega sound with two diacritical marks: the psili, indicating a smooth breathing (no initial /h/ sound), and the varia, denoting a falling or grave pitch accent. This character is encoded in the Unicode standard to support the accurate typesetting of classical Greek, where such combinations of breathing and accent marks are essential for preserving pronunciation and grammatical meaning. It appears primarily in scholarly editions, theological writings, and historical reproductions, allowing digital representation of a specific orthographic tradition that distinguishes between different tonal and breath patterns in ancient Greek.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F6A |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Greek Capital Letter Omega with Psili and Varia |
| Block | Greek Extended |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "Ὠ" U+1F68 Greek Capital Letter Omega with Psili "̀" U+0300 Combining Grave Accent |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ὢ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ὢ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xBD 0xAA |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1F6A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001F6A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1f6a |
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 | "ὢ" U+1F62 Greek Small Letter Omega with Psili and Varia |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ὢ" U+1F62 Greek Small Letter Omega with Psili and Varia |
| Simple Case Folding | "ὢ" U+1F62 Greek Small Letter Omega with Psili and Varia |
| Case Folding | "ὢ" U+1F62 Greek Small Letter Omega with Psili and Varia |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ὢ" U+1F62 Greek Small Letter Omega with Psili and Varia |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ὢ" U+1F62 Greek Small Letter Omega with Psili 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 |