U+1F72 "ὲ" Greek Small Letter Epsilon with Varia Unicode Character

U+1F72 "ὲ" Greek Small Letter Epsilon with Varia is a precomposed character used in the Greek script, representing the lowercase epsilon letter (ε) combined with a varia, or grave accent, which indicates a specific tonal or stress pattern in Ancient Greek. This character is part of the Greek Extended block of Unicode, and it is typically employed in polytonic Greek orthography to denote a falling pitch on the vowel epsilon. While its primary use remains academic or liturgical in the study of ancient texts, it is also supported in modern digital environments for historical and linguistic accuracy.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1F72
Version Added	1.1
Name	Greek Small Letter Epsilon with Varia
Block	Greek Extended
General Category	Lowercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right
Decomposition Type	Canonical
Decomposition Mapping	"ε" U+03B5 Greek Small Letter Epsilon "̀" U+0300 Combining Grave Accent

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ὲ
HTML Hex Encoding	ὲ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE1 0xBD 0xB2
UTF-16 Encoding	0x1F72
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00001F72
C/C++/Java Escape	\u1f72

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check	Yes
NFKC Quick Check	Yes
Numeric Type	None
Numeric Value	NaN
Line Break	Alphabetic
Lowercase	Yes
Simple Uppercase Code Point	"Ὲ" U+1FC8 Greek Capital Letter Epsilon with Varia
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"Ὲ" U+1FC8 Greek Capital Letter Epsilon with Varia
Uppercase Code Point	"Ὲ" U+1FC8 Greek Capital Letter Epsilon with Varia
Titlecase Code Point	"Ὲ" U+1FC8 Greek Capital Letter Epsilon with Varia
Cased	Yes
Changes When Casemapped	Yes
Changes When Titlecased	Yes
Changes When Uppercased	Yes
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	Lower