U+1FC0 "῀" Greek Perispomeni Unicode Character

U+1FC0 "῀" Greek Perispomeni is a combining diacritical mark used in polytonic Greek orthography to represent the perispomene, a type of circumflex accent historically indicating a rising and then falling pitch on a long vowel or a diphthong. It is positioned above a base vowel character and, when combined, it specifies linguistic nuance rather than modern stress, as the perispomene primarily appears in ancient and liturgical texts. This character is distinct from the simple tonos accent used in modern monotonic Greek, serving instead as a critical element for accurately reproducing classical Greek pronunciation and textual tradition.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1FC0
Version Added	1.1
Name	Greek Perispomeni
Block	Greek Extended
General Category	Modifier Symbol
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Other Neutral
Decomposition Type	Compat
Decomposition Mapping	"SP" U+0020 Space "͂" U+0342 Combining Greek Perispomeni

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	῀
HTML Hex Encoding	῀
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE1 0xBF 0x80
UTF-16 Encoding	0x1FC0
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00001FC0
C/C++/Java Escape	\u1fc0

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check	Yes
NFD Quick Check	Yes
Numeric Type	None
Numeric Value	NaN
Line Break	Alphabetic
Case Ignorable	Yes
Changes When NFKC Casefolded	Yes
NFKC Casefold	"SP" U+0020 Space "͂" U+0342 Combining Greek Perispomeni
NFKC Simple Casefold	"SP" U+0020 Space "͂" U+0342 Combining Greek Perispomeni
Script	Greek
Script Extensions	Greek
Indic Syllabic Category	Other
Diacritic	Yes
Vertical Orientation	Rotated
Grapheme Base	Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break	Other
Word Break	Other
Sentence Break	Other