U+1FCD "῍" Greek Psili and Varia Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
῍
U+1FCD "῍" Greek Psili and Varia is a combining diacritical mark used in the polytonic orthography of Ancient Greek, where it represents the combination of a smooth breathing mark, known as psili, and a grave accent, known as varia. This character is typically applied to vowels or the letter rho to indicate a specific tonal and breathing pattern in classical Greek pronunciation, though it is now primarily utilized in scholarly texts, liturgical works, and linguistic studies to preserve the historical accentuation system of the language.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1FCD |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Greek Psili and Varia |
| Block | Greek Extended |
| General Category | Modifier Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "᾿" U+1FBF Greek Psili "̀" U+0300 Combining Grave Accent |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ῍ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ῍ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xBF 0x8D |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1FCD |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001FCD |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1fcd |