U+1FA0 "ᾠ" Greek Small Letter Omega with Psili and Ypogegrammeni Unicode Character
U+1FA0 "ᾠ" Greek Small Letter Omega with Psili and Ypogegrammeni is a composite glyph used in ancient and liturgical Greek writing to represent a long omega sound that begins with a smooth breathing mark, indicated by the psili, and is followed by an iota subscript, known as the ypogegrammeni, which signifies a long vowel with a final iota that is not pronounced as a separate letter but modifies the vowel’s quality. This character is part of the Greek Extended block and is primarily employed in polytonic orthography, which preserves the historical accents and breathing marks of classical Greek, often appearing in scholarly editions of ancient texts or in Greek Orthodox liturgical books. Its combination of diacritical marks makes it a precise tool for rendering the original phonology and orthographic conventions of ancient Greek, distinguishing it from other omega forms that lack these specific features.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1FA0 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Greek Small Letter Omega with Psili and Ypogegrammeni |
| Block | Greek Extended |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ὠ" U+1F60 Greek Small Letter Omega with Psili "ͅ" U+0345 Combining Greek Ypogegrammeni |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᾠ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᾠ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xBE 0xA0 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1FA0 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001FA0 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1fa0 |