U+1FCA "Ὴ" Greek Capital Letter Eta with Varia Unicode Character
U+1FCA "Ὴ" Greek Capital Letter Eta with Varia is a precomposed Greek letter used in polytonic orthography, representing the capital letter eta (Η) written with a varia, or grave accent, which historically indicated a specific pitch contour in Ancient Greek. This character is typically employed in texts that preserve classical accentuation, such as scholarly editions, liturgical works, or historical linguistic studies, where it appears in contexts like the final syllable of a word to denote a falling tone. As part of the Greek and Coptic block in Unicode, it serves to maintain accurate representation of ancient Greek writing without requiring separate combining diacritical marks, thereby aiding in consistent digital rendering for linguistic and historical documentation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1FCA |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Greek Capital Letter Eta with Varia |
| Block | Greek Extended |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "Η" U+0397 Greek Capital Letter Eta "̀" U+0300 Combining Grave Accent |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ὴ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ὴ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xBF 0x8A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1FCA |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001FCA |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1fca |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Alphabetic |
| Uppercase | Yes |
| Simple Lowercase Code Point | "ὴ" U+1F74 Greek Small Letter Eta with Varia |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ὴ" U+1F74 Greek Small Letter Eta with Varia |
| Simple Case Folding | "ὴ" U+1F74 Greek Small Letter Eta with Varia |
| Case Folding | "ὴ" U+1F74 Greek Small Letter Eta with Varia |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ὴ" U+1F74 Greek Small Letter Eta with Varia |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ὴ" U+1F74 Greek Small Letter Eta with Varia |
| 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 |