U+1FDA "Ὶ" Greek Capital Letter Iota with Varia Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1FDA "Ὶ" Greek Capital Letter Iota with Varia is a precomposed character used in polytonic Greek orthography, representing the uppercase Greek letter iota (Ι) combined with a varia, or grave accent. This accent mark indicates a falling pitch or stress on the vowel in ancient Greek, typically occurring when the iota appears in a word's final or non-acute position within a multi-syllabic word. In modern Greek, the grave accent has largely been replaced by the acute accent for stress marking, but this character remains essential for accurate representation of classical texts, liturgical writings, or linguistic studies where historical pronunciation and accentuation are preserved.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1FDA |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Greek Capital Letter Iota with Varia |
| 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+0300 Combining Grave Accent |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ὶ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ὶ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xBF 0x9A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1FDA |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001FDA |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1fda |
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 | "ὶ" U+1F76 Greek Small Letter Iota with Varia |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ὶ" U+1F76 Greek Small Letter Iota with Varia |
| Simple Case Folding | "ὶ" U+1F76 Greek Small Letter Iota with Varia |
| Case Folding | "ὶ" U+1F76 Greek Small Letter Iota with Varia |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ὶ" U+1F76 Greek Small Letter Iota with Varia |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ὶ" U+1F76 Greek Small Letter Iota with Varia |
| 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 |