U+1F92 "ᾒ" Greek Small Letter Eta with Psili and Varia and Ypogegrammeni Unicode Character
U+1F92 "ᾒ" Greek Small Letter Eta with Psili and Varia and Ypogegrammeni is a historic polytonic Greek letter used in classical and liturgical texts to represent a specific combination of diacritical marks on the eta vowel. It combines a psili (smooth breathing mark), a varia (grave accent), and a ypogegrammeni (subscript iota) to indicate a smooth breathing, a low or falling tone, and the presence of a long iota sound that was historically pronounced but later written as a subscript. This character is part of the Greek Extended block in the Unicode standard and is primarily used in scholarly editions of ancient Greek manuscripts or in religious contexts where precise accentuation and breathing marks are essential for correct pronunciation and meaning. Its complex structure makes it a rare but important glyph for accurately representing written Ancient Greek in digital text.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F92 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Greek Small Letter Eta with Psili and Varia and Ypogegrammeni |
| Block | Greek Extended |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ἢ" U+1F22 Greek Small Letter Eta with Psili and Varia "ͅ" U+0345 Combining Greek Ypogegrammeni |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᾒ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᾒ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xBE 0x92 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1F92 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001F92 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1f92 |