U+1FA9 "ᾩ" Greek Capital Letter Omega with Dasia and Prosgegrammeni Unicode Character
U+1FA9 "ᾩ" Greek Capital Letter Omega with Dasia and Prosgegrammeni is a precomposed polytonic Greek letter used in ancient and liturgical texts, combining a capital omega with the dasia diacritic, which indicates rough breathing, and the prosgegrammeni, a small iota subscript written alongside the letter to represent a long vowel sound. This character typically appears in words where an initial vowel or diphthong, such as omega followed by a long iota, requires both an aspirated pronunciation and a specific grammatical function, often in contexts like the nominative or vocative case of feminine nouns or adjectives. Represented in Unicode for compatibility with legacy encoding systems, it allows modern digital text to preserve the precise orthographic details of classical and medieval Greek manuscripts without needing separate combining marks.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1FA9 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Greek Capital Letter Omega with Dasia and Prosgegrammeni |
| Block | Greek Extended |
| General Category | Titlecase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "Ὡ" U+1F69 Greek Capital Letter Omega with Dasia "ͅ" U+0345 Combining Greek Ypogegrammeni |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᾩ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᾩ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xBE 0xA9 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1FA9 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001FA9 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1fa9 |