U+1FCF "῏" Greek Psili and Perispomeni Unicode Character
U+1FCF "῏" Greek Psili and Perispomeni is a combining diacritical mark used in ancient Greek polytonic orthography to represent a specific accentual and breathing combination. It combines the psili, which indicates a smooth breathing (absence of an aspirated 'h' sound) over an initial vowel or diphthong, with the perispomeni, a circumflex accent that denotes a high-pitched, then falling tone on a long vowel. This character is typically placed above a vowel letter in edited classical texts to precisely denote both the pronunciation and the historical tonal contour of the syllable. It is part of a standardized set of polytonic Greek characters in Unicode, supporting accurate typographic representation of older Greek scholarly and liturgical materials.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1FCF |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Greek Psili and Perispomeni |
| 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+0342 Combining Greek Perispomeni |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ῏ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ῏ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xBF 0x8F |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1FCF |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001FCF |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1fcf |