U+1FD2 "ῒ" Greek Small Letter Iota with Dialytika and Varia Unicode Character
U+1FD2 "ῒ" Greek Small Letter Iota with Dialytika and Varia is a precomposed character in the Greek script used for polytonic orthography, representing the letter iota (ι) combined with two diacritical marks: a dialytika (diaeresis) placed above the letter, and a varia (grave accent) written over the dialytika. This combination indicates that the iota is to be pronounced as a separate syllable from a preceding vowel, while the grave accent denotes a specific tonal pitch pattern in Ancient Greek, typically occurring on a word's final syllable before a pause or following word. In modern textual contexts, it is rarely used, as Modern Greek employs monotonic orthography, but it remains essential for accurately reproducing historical or liturgical Greek texts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1FD2 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Greek Small Letter Iota with Dialytika and Varia |
| Block | Greek Extended |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ϊ" U+03CA Greek Small Letter Iota with Dialytika "̀" U+0300 Combining Grave Accent |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ῒ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ῒ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xBF 0x92 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1FD2 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001FD2 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1fd2 |