U+1F74 "ὴ" Greek Small Letter Eta with Varia Unicode Character

U+1F74 "ὴ" Greek Small Letter Eta with Varia is a precomposed Greek letter used in polytonic orthography to represent the vowel eta (η) with a grave accent, known as varia. This diacritical mark indicates a low or falling pitch in ancient Greek pronunciation, though in modern Greek it marks stress on a syllable now bearing a rising tone. The character is part of the Greek Extended block in Unicode, which was added to support historical and liturgical texts, and it is distinct from composing eta with a combining grave accent due to its existence as a single codepoint.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1F74
Version Added	1.1
Name	Greek Small Letter Eta with Varia
Block	Greek Extended
General Category	Lowercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right
Decomposition Type	Canonical
Decomposition Mapping	"η" U+03B7 Greek Small Letter Eta "̀" U+0300 Combining Grave Accent

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ὴ
HTML Hex Encoding	ὴ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE1 0xBD 0xB4
UTF-16 Encoding	0x1F74
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00001F74
C/C++/Java Escape	\u1f74

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	"Ὴ" U+1FCA Greek Capital Letter Eta with Varia
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"Ὴ" U+1FCA Greek Capital Letter Eta with Varia
Uppercase Code Point	"Ὴ" U+1FCA Greek Capital Letter Eta with Varia
Titlecase Code Point	"Ὴ" U+1FCA Greek Capital Letter Eta 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