U+1FCE "῎" Greek Psili and Oxia Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1FCE "῎" Greek Psili and Oxia is a combining diacritical mark used in ancient Greek polytonic orthography, representing the combination of the psili, which indicates a smooth breathing or aspiration, and the oxia, which denotes an acute accent. This symbol is placed over a Greek vowel character to modify its pronunciation and tonal qualities, typically appearing in historical or liturgical texts to preserve classical phonetic details. It is part of the Unicode Greek Extended block, which supports the encoding of ancient Greek accents and breathings essential for accurate scholarly and religious representation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1FCE |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Greek Psili and Oxia |
| 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+0301 Combining Acute Accent |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ῎ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ῎ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xBF 0x8E |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1FCE |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001FCE |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1fce |