U+1F73 "έ" Greek Small Letter Epsilon with Oxia Unicode Character

U+1F73 "έ" Greek Small Letter Epsilon with Oxia is a precomposed character representing the Greek vowel epsilon in its lower case form combined with the oxia, an acute accent mark historically used in polytonic Greek orthography to indicate a high pitch or stress. This character is distinct from the sequence of a plain epsilon followed by a combining acute accent, as it exists as a single encoded entity for compatibility with older text encoding standards. It is typically employed in scholarly or liturgical texts that preserve classical or Byzantine Greek pronunciation and accentuation conventions.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1F73
Version Added	1.1
Name	Greek Small Letter Epsilon with Oxia
Block	Greek Extended
General Category	Lowercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right
Decomposition Type	Canonical
Decomposition Mapping	"έ" U+03AD Greek Small Letter Epsilon with Tonos

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	έ
HTML Hex Encoding	έ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE1 0xBD 0xB3
UTF-16 Encoding	0x1F73
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00001F73
C/C++/Java Escape	\u1f73

Unicode Properties

Full Composition Exclusion	Yes
Numeric Type	None
Numeric Value	NaN
Line Break	Alphabetic
Lowercase	Yes
Simple Uppercase Code Point	"Έ" U+1FC9 Greek Capital Letter Epsilon with Oxia
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"Έ" U+1FC9 Greek Capital Letter Epsilon with Oxia
Uppercase Code Point	"Έ" U+1FC9 Greek Capital Letter Epsilon with Oxia
Titlecase Code Point	"Έ" U+1FC9 Greek Capital Letter Epsilon with Oxia
Cased	Yes
Changes When Casemapped	Yes
Changes When NFKC Casefolded	Yes
Changes When Titlecased	Yes
Changes When Uppercased	Yes
NFKC Casefold	"έ" U+03AD Greek Small Letter Epsilon with Tonos
NFKC Simple Casefold	"έ" U+03AD Greek Small Letter Epsilon with Tonos
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