U+1F6D "Ὥ" Greek Capital Letter Omega with Dasia and Oxia Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
Ὥ
U+1F6D "Ὥ" Greek Capital Letter Omega with Dasia and Oxia is a precomposed Greek letter used in polytonic orthography, which represents the long vowel omega combined with a rough breathing mark (dasia) and an acute accent (oxia). This character primarily appears in ancient or liturgical Greek texts to indicate both aspiration at the start of a vowel sound, like the English 'h', and a rising pitch accent. As a precomposed form, it is a single code point that simplifies text rendering and processing in digital environments, ensuring the correct combination of diacritics is preserved without relying on complex combining mechanisms.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F6D |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Greek Capital Letter Omega with Dasia and Oxia |
| 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+0301 Combining Acute Accent |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ὥ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ὥ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xBD 0xAD |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1F6D |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001F6D |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1f6d |
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 | "ὥ" U+1F65 Greek Small Letter Omega with Dasia and Oxia |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ὥ" U+1F65 Greek Small Letter Omega with Dasia and Oxia |
| Simple Case Folding | "ὥ" U+1F65 Greek Small Letter Omega with Dasia and Oxia |
| Case Folding | "ὥ" U+1F65 Greek Small Letter Omega with Dasia and Oxia |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ὥ" U+1F65 Greek Small Letter Omega with Dasia and Oxia |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ὥ" U+1F65 Greek Small Letter Omega with Dasia 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 |