U+1F97 "ᾗ" Greek Small Letter Eta with Dasia and Perispomeni and Ypogegrammeni Unicode Character
U+1F97 "ᾗ" Greek Small Letter Eta with Dasia and Perispomeni and Ypogegrammeni is a specialized polytonic Greek letter used in ancient Greek orthography to represent a specific combination of breathing and accent marks on the vowel eta. The dasia indicates rough breathing, which is a glottal fricative or "h" sound at the beginning of the letter, while the perispomeni signifies a circumflex accent indicating a rise and fall in pitch. The ypogegrammeni, a small iota subscript written beneath the eta, marks a long iota sound that was historically pronounced but later only indicated in writing. This character appears primarily in scholarly editions of ancient Greek texts, such as those by Homer or the tragedians, where precise diacritical notation is essential for accurate pronunciation and grammatical interpretation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F97 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Greek Small Letter Eta with Dasia and Perispomeni and Ypogegrammeni |
| Block | Greek Extended |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ἧ" U+1F27 Greek Small Letter Eta with Dasia and Perispomeni "ͅ" U+0345 Combining Greek Ypogegrammeni |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᾗ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᾗ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xBE 0x97 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1F97 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001F97 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1f97 |