U+1FC1 "῁" Greek Dialytika and Perispomeni Unicode Character
U+1FC1 "῁" Greek Dialytika and Perispomeni is a precomposed Greek letter that combines the diaeresis, or dialytika, which indicates that two adjacent vowels are pronounced separately, with the perispomeni, an accent mark representing a high-low pitch contour historically used in Ancient Greek. This character is specifically applied to the vowel iota and appears in scholarly editions of ancient texts to denote a long, circumflex-accented iota that also requires the diaeresis to signal that it begins a new syllable rather than forming a diphthong with a preceding vowel. While rare in modern Greek usage, it serves a specialized function in classical philology and textual criticism, ensuring precise representation of pronunciation and meter in transcribed Ancient Greek poetry and prose.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1FC1 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Greek Dialytika and Perispomeni |
| Block | Greek Extended |
| General Category | Modifier Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "¨" U+00A8 Diaeresis "͂" U+0342 Combining Greek Perispomeni |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ῁ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ῁ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xBF 0x81 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1FC1 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001FC1 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1fc1 |