U+1F75 "ή" Greek Small Letter Eta with Oxia Unicode Character

U+1F75 "ή" Greek Small Letter Eta with Oxia is a precomposed glyph used in the polytonic orthography of the Greek language, representing the lowercase eta (η) with an oxia (acute accent) tone mark. This character historically appears in ancient and liturgical Greek texts, where it indicates a high pitch or stress on the vowel sound. It is encoded in the Unicode standard as part of the Greek Extended block to support the preservation and electronic representation of traditional Greek writing.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1F75
Version Added	1.1
Name	Greek Small Letter Eta with Oxia
Block	Greek Extended
General Category	Lowercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right
Decomposition Type	Canonical
Decomposition Mapping	"ή" U+03AE Greek Small Letter Eta with Tonos

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ή
HTML Hex Encoding	ή
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE1 0xBD 0xB5
UTF-16 Encoding	0x1F75
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00001F75
C/C++/Java Escape	\u1f75

Unicode Properties

Full Composition Exclusion	Yes
Numeric Type	None
Numeric Value	NaN
Line Break	Alphabetic
Lowercase	Yes
Simple Uppercase Code Point	"Ή" U+1FCB Greek Capital Letter Eta with Oxia
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"Ή" U+1FCB Greek Capital Letter Eta with Oxia
Uppercase Code Point	"Ή" U+1FCB Greek Capital Letter Eta with Oxia
Titlecase Code Point	"Ή" U+1FCB Greek Capital Letter Eta with Oxia
Cased	Yes
Changes When Casemapped	Yes
Changes When NFKC Casefolded	Yes
Changes When Titlecased	Yes
Changes When Uppercased	Yes
NFKC Casefold	"ή" U+03AE Greek Small Letter Eta with Tonos
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ή" U+03AE Greek Small Letter Eta 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