U+1FDD "῝" Greek Dasia and Varia Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
῝
U+1FDD "῝" Greek Dasia and Varia is a combining diacritical mark used in polytonic Greek orthography to represent a specific breath and accent pattern on a vowel or a rho. It combines the dasia (rough breathing) which indicates an initial "h" sound with the varia (grave accent) which indicates a lower or falling pitch. This character is typically placed over the initial letter of a word that begins with a vowel or a rho, signaling both the aspiration and a particular tonal quality in ancient Greek pronunciation. It is distinct from other combining combinations like the dasia and oxia, as the varia accent modifies the syllable's tone differently.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1FDD |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Greek Dasia and Varia |
| Block | Greek Extended |
| General Category | Modifier Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "῾" U+1FFE Greek Dasia "̀" U+0300 Combining Grave Accent |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ῝ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ῝ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xBF 0x9D |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1FDD |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001FDD |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1fdd |