U+1F93 "ᾓ" Greek Small Letter Eta with Dasia and Varia and Ypogegrammeni Unicode Character
U+1F93 "ᾓ" Greek Small Letter Eta with Dasia and Varia and Ypogegrammeni is a polytonic Greek letter used in classical and liturgical Greek texts, representing the vowel eta (η) with three diacritical marks: a dasia (rough breathing) indicating an initial /h/ sound, a varia (grave accent) marking a low or falling pitch, and a ypogegrammeni (iota subscript) showing a long diphthong that was once pronounced with an iota but later became silent. This character is part of the Greek Extended Unicode block and is essential for accurately representing ancient Greek prosody, pronunciation, and textual traditions, particularly in scholarly editions and Orthodox Christian manuscripts where such precise diacritical combinations preserve historical phonetic and grammatical details.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F93 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Greek Small Letter Eta with Dasia 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 | "ἣ" U+1F23 Greek Small Letter Eta with Dasia and Varia "ͅ" U+0345 Combining Greek Ypogegrammeni |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᾓ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᾓ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xBE 0x93 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1F93 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001F93 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1f93 |