U+1F7A "ὺ" Greek Small Letter Upsilon with Varia Unicode Character

U+1F7A "ὺ" Greek Small Letter Upsilon with Varia is a precomposed character used in polytonic Greek orthography, representing the Greek letter upsilon (υ) with a varia, or grave accent, which indicates a lower or falling pitch in the ancient Greek tonal accent system. It is part of the Greek Extended Unicode block and is employed in scholarly texts, liturgical writings, and educational materials that preserve classical pronunciation and diacritical marks. This character ensures accurate representation of words like "αὐτὸς" when the grave accent replaces an acute stress on a nonfinal syllable, reflecting historical linguistic conventions.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1F7A
Version Added	1.1
Name	Greek Small Letter Upsilon with Varia
Block	Greek Extended
General Category	Lowercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right
Decomposition Type	Canonical
Decomposition Mapping	"υ" U+03C5 Greek Small Letter Upsilon "̀" U+0300 Combining Grave Accent

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ὺ
HTML Hex Encoding	ὺ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE1 0xBD 0xBA
UTF-16 Encoding	0x1F7A
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00001F7A
C/C++/Java Escape	\u1f7a

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	"Ὺ" U+1FEA Greek Capital Letter Upsilon with Varia
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"Ὺ" U+1FEA Greek Capital Letter Upsilon with Varia
Uppercase Code Point	"Ὺ" U+1FEA Greek Capital Letter Upsilon with Varia
Titlecase Code Point	"Ὺ" U+1FEA Greek Capital Letter Upsilon 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