U+1FA3 "ᾣ" Greek Small Letter Omega with Dasia and Varia and Ypogegrammeni Unicode Character
U+1FA3 "ᾣ" Greek Small Letter Omega with Dasia and Varia and Ypogegrammeni is a precomposed polytonic Greek character used in ancient and liturgical Greek texts, combining the omega letter with a dasia (rough breathing mark indicating an initial 'h' sound), a varia (grave accent marking low pitch), and a ypogegrammeni (an iota subscript written beneath the omega to denote a long diphthong that lost its pronunciation over time). This complex character represents a specific phonetic and accentual form of the omega, often appearing in scholarly editions of classical works or religious manuscripts to precisely convey the original spelling and prosody. Its inclusion in Unicode allows digital preservation and accurate rendering of these historically significant textual features without requiring separate combining marks.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1FA3 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Greek Small Letter Omega 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 | "ὣ" U+1F63 Greek Small Letter Omega with Dasia and Varia "ͅ" U+0345 Combining Greek Ypogegrammeni |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᾣ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᾣ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xBE 0xA3 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1FA3 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001FA3 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1fa3 |