U+1FC6 "ῆ" Greek Small Letter Eta with Perispomeni Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1FC6 "ῆ" Greek Small Letter Eta with Perispomeni is a precomposed character used in the Greek script, specifically for writing polytonic Greek, where it represents the letter eta (η) combined with the perispomeni diacritic, which indicates a rising-falling pitch accent in ancient Greek pronunciation. This character is part of the Unicode Greek Extended block and is often encountered in scholarly texts, historical documents, and liturgical contexts that preserve older orthographic conventions. It allows for more precise representation of ancient Greek accents without needing separate combining marks, simplifying text handling in digital environments.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1FC6 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Greek Small Letter Eta with Perispomeni |
| Block | Greek Extended |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "η" U+03B7 Greek Small Letter Eta "͂" U+0342 Combining Greek Perispomeni |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ῆ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ῆ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xBF 0x86 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1FC6 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001FC6 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1fc6 |