U+1F76 "ὶ" Greek Small Letter Iota with Varia Unicode Character

U+1F76 "ὶ" Greek Small Letter Iota with Varia is a precomposed character used in polytonic Greek orthography, representing the lowercase iota combined with a varia, or grave accent, which indicates a low or falling pitch in ancient Greek pronunciation. This character belongs to the Greek Extended block and is primarily utilized for scholarly texts and linguistic reconstructions of classical Greek, where pitch accents are preserved for accuracy. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures consistent digital representation of this historically significant diacritical mark, distinguishing it from standard modern Greek forms that lack such tonal notation.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1F76
Version Added	1.1
Name	Greek Small Letter Iota with Varia
Block	Greek Extended
General Category	Lowercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right
Decomposition Type	Canonical
Decomposition Mapping	"ι" U+03B9 Greek Small Letter Iota "̀" U+0300 Combining Grave Accent

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ὶ
HTML Hex Encoding	ὶ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE1 0xBD 0xB6
UTF-16 Encoding	0x1F76
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00001F76
C/C++/Java Escape	\u1f76

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	"Ὶ" U+1FDA Greek Capital Letter Iota with Varia
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"Ὶ" U+1FDA Greek Capital Letter Iota with Varia
Uppercase Code Point	"Ὶ" U+1FDA Greek Capital Letter Iota with Varia
Titlecase Code Point	"Ὶ" U+1FDA Greek Capital Letter Iota 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