U+1FD8 "Ῐ" Greek Capital Letter Iota with Vrachy Unicode Character

U+1FD8 "Ῐ" Greek Capital Letter Iota with Vrachy is a precomposed character in the Greek and Coptic block, representing a capital iota with a breve mark above it, known as a vrachy. This diacritical combination denotes a short vowel sound in ancient Greek and is primarily used in scholarly or liturgical contexts for the accurate transcription of classical texts. It is rarely employed in modern Greek writing, where the simplified monotonic system omits such accentuation.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1FD8
Version Added	1.1
Name	Greek Capital Letter Iota with Vrachy
Block	Greek Extended
General Category	Uppercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right
Decomposition Type	Canonical
Decomposition Mapping	"Ι" U+0399 Greek Capital Letter Iota "̆" U+0306 Combining Breve

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	Ῐ
HTML Hex Encoding	Ῐ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE1 0xBF 0x98
UTF-16 Encoding	0x1FD8
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00001FD8
C/C++/Java Escape	\u1fd8

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check	Yes
NFKC Quick Check	Yes
Numeric Type	None
Numeric Value	NaN
Line Break	Alphabetic
Uppercase	Yes
Simple Lowercase Code Point	"ῐ" U+1FD0 Greek Small Letter Iota with Vrachy
Lowercase Code Point	"ῐ" U+1FD0 Greek Small Letter Iota with Vrachy
Simple Case Folding	"ῐ" U+1FD0 Greek Small Letter Iota with Vrachy
Case Folding	"ῐ" U+1FD0 Greek Small Letter Iota with Vrachy
Cased	Yes
Changes When Casefolded	Yes
Changes When Casemapped	Yes
Changes When Lowercased	Yes
Changes When NFKC Casefolded	Yes
NFKC Casefold	"ῐ" U+1FD0 Greek Small Letter Iota with Vrachy
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ῐ" U+1FD0 Greek Small Letter Iota with Vrachy
Script	Greek
Script Extensions	Greek
Indic Syllabic Category	Other
ID Start	Yes
XID Start	Yes
ID Continue	Yes
XID Continue	Yes
Alphabetic	Yes
Vertical Orientation	Rotated
Grapheme Base	Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break	Other
Word Break	Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break	Upper