U+1F6C "Ὤ" Greek Capital Letter Omega with Psili and Oxia Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+1F6C "Ὤ" Greek Capital Letter Omega with Psili and Oxia is a precomposed polytonic Greek letter used in classical and liturgical texts to represent a long omega vowel that begins with a smooth breathing mark, known as psili, and carries an acute accent, called oxia. This combination indicates both that the word starts with a vowel sound without an initial h sound and that the syllable is stressed with a rising pitch, as was standard in ancient Greek pronunciation. The character is a part of the Greek and Coptic block in Unicode and is encoded specifically for scholarly, theological, or historical documentation where such precise diacritical markings are required, often found in editions of Homeric epics or Byzantine manuscripts.

General Properties

Code Point U+1F6C
Version Added 1.1
Name Greek Capital Letter Omega with Psili and Oxia
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+0301 Combining Acute Accent

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding Ὤ
HTML Hex Encoding Ὤ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE1 0xBD 0xAC
UTF-16 Encoding 0x1F6C
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00001F6C
C/C++/Java Escape \u1f6c

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 "ὤ" U+1F64 Greek Small Letter Omega with Psili and Oxia
Lowercase Code Point "ὤ" U+1F64 Greek Small Letter Omega with Psili and Oxia
Simple Case Folding "ὤ" U+1F64 Greek Small Letter Omega with Psili and Oxia
Case Folding "ὤ" U+1F64 Greek Small Letter Omega with Psili and Oxia
Cased Yes
Changes When Casefolded Yes
Changes When Casemapped Yes
Changes When Lowercased Yes
Changes When NFKC Casefolded Yes
NFKC Casefold "ὤ" U+1F64 Greek Small Letter Omega with Psili and Oxia
NFKC Simple Casefold "ὤ" U+1F64 Greek Small Letter Omega with Psili and Oxia
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