U+1F6B "Ὣ" Greek Capital Letter Omega with Dasia and Varia Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
Ὣ
U+1F6B "Ὣ" Greek Capital Letter Omega with Dasia and Varia is a precomposed polytonic Greek letter used in classical and liturgical texts to represent the long omega sound combined with a rough breathing mark, known as dasia, and a grave accent, known as varia. This character appears primarily in ancient Greek writing where it indicates a specific pronunciation and tonal inflection, often at the beginning of a word or in certain grammatical contexts. Its inclusion in the Unicode standard ensures proper digital representation and rendering of historical Greek manuscripts and scholarly works that require precise diacritical notation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F6B |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Greek Capital Letter Omega with Dasia and Varia |
| Block | Greek Extended |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "Ὡ" U+1F69 Greek Capital Letter Omega with Dasia "̀" U+0300 Combining Grave Accent |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ὣ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ὣ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xBD 0xAB |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1F6B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001F6B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1f6b |
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 | "ὣ" U+1F63 Greek Small Letter Omega with Dasia and Varia |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ὣ" U+1F63 Greek Small Letter Omega with Dasia and Varia |
| Simple Case Folding | "ὣ" U+1F63 Greek Small Letter Omega with Dasia and Varia |
| Case Folding | "ὣ" U+1F63 Greek Small Letter Omega with Dasia and Varia |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ὣ" U+1F63 Greek Small Letter Omega with Dasia and Varia |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ὣ" U+1F63 Greek Small Letter Omega with Dasia 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 |