U+1FAE "ᾮ" Greek Capital Letter Omega with Psili and Perispomeni and Prosgegrammeni Unicode Character
U+1FAE "ᾮ" Greek Capital Letter Omega with Psili and Perispomeni and Prosgegrammeni is a complex, precomposed glyph used in the polytonic orthography of the Greek language, representing an Omega that simultaneously carries three diacritical marks: the psili (smooth breathing), the perispomeni (circumflex accent), and the prosgegrammeni (an iota subscript written alongside, though here it is a capital letter with the iota adscript). This character is typically encountered in ancient or liturgical Greek texts, where it appears in word-final positions, often indicating a vowel-initial word with a circumflex accent and a long vowel sound that historically included an iota. Its inclusion in Unicode allows for precise representation of classical and Koine Greek without falling back on combining diacritics, preserving the exact typographic and linguistic nuance of historical manuscripts and scholarly editions.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1FAE |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Greek Capital Letter Omega with Psili and Perispomeni and Prosgegrammeni |
| Block | Greek Extended |
| General Category | Titlecase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "Ὦ" U+1F6E Greek Capital Letter Omega with Psili and Perispomeni "ͅ" U+0345 Combining Greek Ypogegrammeni |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᾮ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᾮ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xBE 0xAE |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1FAE |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001FAE |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1fae |