U+1FAB "ᾫ" Greek Capital Letter Omega with Dasia and Varia and Prosgegrammeni Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1FAB "ᾫ" Greek Capital Letter Omega with Dasia and Varia and Prosgegrammeni is a polytonic Greek letter used in ancient and liturgical texts, combining three distinct diacritical marks. The dasia indicates a rough breathing sound, the varia denotes a grave accent, and the prosgegrammeni is a small iota that appears subscripted beneath the omega, representing a long vowel that was historically followed by a silent iota. This character is extremely rare in modern Greek but appears in scholarly editions of classical literature, such as in the Greek New Testament or Old Testament manuscripts, where it represents a capital omega with these specific phonetic and grammatical features.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1FAB |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Greek Capital Letter Omega with Dasia and Varia and Prosgegrammeni |
| Block | Greek Extended |
| General Category | Titlecase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "Ὣ" U+1F6B Greek Capital 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 0xAB |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1FAB |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001FAB |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1fab |