U+1F79 "ό" Greek Small Letter Omicron with Oxia Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1F79 "ό" Greek Small Letter Omicron with Oxia is a precomposed character representing the Greek letter omicron combined with an oxia, an acute accent mark historically used in polytonic Greek orthography to indicate a rising pitch accent on a vowel. This character is part of the Greek Extended block and is primarily employed in ancient or liturgical Greek texts, where accurate accentuation is preserved. In modern Greek, however, the oxia is typically replaced by the tonos accent, although the oxia and tonos are unified in Unicode for practical encoding purposes, making U+1F79 functionally equivalent to the sequence of a plain omicron followed by a combining acute accent.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F79 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Greek Small Letter Omicron with Oxia |
| Block | Greek Extended |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ό" U+03CC Greek Small Letter Omicron with Tonos |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ό |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ό |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xBD 0xB9 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1F79 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001F79 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1f79 |
Unicode Properties
| Full Composition Exclusion | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Alphabetic |
| Lowercase | Yes |
| Simple Uppercase Code Point | "Ό" U+1FF9 Greek Capital Letter Omicron with Oxia |
| Simple Titlecase Code Point | "Ό" U+1FF9 Greek Capital Letter Omicron with Oxia |
| Uppercase Code Point | "Ό" U+1FF9 Greek Capital Letter Omicron with Oxia |
| Titlecase Code Point | "Ό" U+1FF9 Greek Capital Letter Omicron with Oxia |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Titlecased | Yes |
| Changes When Uppercased | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ό" U+03CC Greek Small Letter Omicron with Tonos |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ό" U+03CC Greek Small Letter Omicron 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 |