U+1FD7 "ῗ" Greek Small Letter Iota with Dialytika and Perispomeni Unicode Character
U+1FD7 "ῗ" Greek Small Letter Iota with Dialytika and Perispomeni is a composite glyph used in polytonic Greek orthography to represent a specific combination of diacritical marks applied to the lowercase iota letter. It combines a diaeresis (dialytika), which indicates that the iota is pronounced separately from a preceding vowel, with a circumflex accent (perispomeni) that denotes a specific high-low pitch contour in ancient Greek. This character is primarily encountered in ancient or religious Greek texts, particularly in classical scholarship or editions of the New Testament, where precise accentuation and breathing marks are preserved for historical and linguistic accuracy. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures that this nuanced typographic feature can be digitally represented and rendered in modern computing environments.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1FD7 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Greek Small Letter Iota with Dialytika and Perispomeni |
| 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+0342 Combining Greek Perispomeni |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ῗ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ῗ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xBF 0x97 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1FD7 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001FD7 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1fd7 |