U+1FC9 "Έ" Greek Capital Letter Epsilon with Oxia Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1FC9 "Έ" Greek Capital Letter Epsilon with Oxia is a precomposed character used in polytonic Greek orthography, representing the Greek capital letter epsilon (Ε) with an oxia mark, which historically indicates a high or acute pitch accent. This character is part of the Greek Extended block and is primarily employed in classical and liturgical texts to accurately transcribe ancient Greek prosody or specific stress conventions. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures that scholars and typographers can digitally represent this precise diacritic combination without needing to combine separate characters.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1FC9 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Greek Capital Letter Epsilon with Oxia |
| Block | Greek Extended |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "Έ" U+0388 Greek Capital Letter Epsilon with Tonos |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Έ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Έ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xBF 0x89 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1FC9 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001FC9 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1fc9 |
Unicode Properties
| Full Composition Exclusion | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Alphabetic |
| Uppercase | Yes |
| Simple Lowercase Code Point | "έ" U+1F73 Greek Small Letter Epsilon with Oxia |
| Lowercase Code Point | "έ" U+1F73 Greek Small Letter Epsilon with Oxia |
| Simple Case Folding | "έ" U+1F73 Greek Small Letter Epsilon with Oxia |
| Case Folding | "έ" U+1F73 Greek Small Letter Epsilon with Oxia |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "έ" U+03AD Greek Small Letter Epsilon with Tonos |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "έ" U+03AD Greek Small Letter Epsilon with Tonos |
| Script | Greek |
| Script Extensions | Greek |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| ID Start | Yes |
| XID Start | Yes |
| ID Continue | Yes |
| XID Continue | Yes |
| Alphabetic | Yes |
| Vertical Orientation | Rotated |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Alphabetic letter |
| Sentence Break | Upper |