U+1F78 "ὸ" Greek Small Letter Omicron with Varia Unicode Character

U+1F78 "ὸ" Greek Small Letter Omicron with Varia is a precomposed character representing the Greek letter omicron combined with a varia, or grave accent, which indicates a specific tone or pitch in Ancient Greek. This character is part of the Greek Extended block, enabling correct representation of polytonic Greek text, which is essential for scholarly works, linguistic studies, and historic liturgical documents. In modern Greek, the accent is no longer used, but the character remains vital for accurately rendering classical texts, such as those by Homer and Plato, where the grave accent distinguishes meaning or grammatical function.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1F78
Version Added	1.1
Name	Greek Small Letter Omicron with Varia
Block	Greek Extended
General Category	Lowercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right
Decomposition Type	Canonical
Decomposition Mapping	"ο" U+03BF Greek Small Letter Omicron "̀" U+0300 Combining Grave Accent

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ὸ
HTML Hex Encoding	ὸ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE1 0xBD 0xB8
UTF-16 Encoding	0x1F78
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00001F78
C/C++/Java Escape	\u1f78

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	"Ὸ" U+1FF8 Greek Capital Letter Omicron with Varia
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"Ὸ" U+1FF8 Greek Capital Letter Omicron with Varia
Uppercase Code Point	"Ὸ" U+1FF8 Greek Capital Letter Omicron with Varia
Titlecase Code Point	"Ὸ" U+1FF8 Greek Capital Letter Omicron 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