U+1FE0 "ῠ" Greek Small Letter Upsilon with Vrachy Unicode Character

U+1FE0 "ῠ" Greek Small Letter Upsilon with Vrachy is a specialized character used in polytonic Greek orthography to represent the vowel sound of a short (vrachy) upsilon. It combines the standard Greek small letter upsilon (υ) with a breve diacritic mark, a small curved symbol placed above the letter to indicate that the vowel is pronounced as short rather than long. This character appears primarily in classical and scholarly texts, such as editions of ancient Greek poetry or grammar, where precise annotation of vowel length is necessary for accurate pronunciation and metrical analysis.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1FE0
Version Added	1.1
Name	Greek Small Letter Upsilon with Vrachy
Block	Greek Extended
General Category	Lowercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right
Decomposition Type	Canonical
Decomposition Mapping	"υ" U+03C5 Greek Small Letter Upsilon "̆" U+0306 Combining Breve

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ῠ
HTML Hex Encoding	ῠ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE1 0xBF 0xA0
UTF-16 Encoding	0x1FE0
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00001FE0
C/C++/Java Escape	\u1fe0

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check	Yes
NFKC Quick Check	Yes
Numeric Type	None
Numeric Value	NaN
Line Break	Alphabetic
Lowercase	Yes
Simple Uppercase Code Point	"Ῠ" U+1FE8 Greek Capital Letter Upsilon with Vrachy
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"Ῠ" U+1FE8 Greek Capital Letter Upsilon with Vrachy
Uppercase Code Point	"Ῠ" U+1FE8 Greek Capital Letter Upsilon with Vrachy
Titlecase Code Point	"Ῠ" U+1FE8 Greek Capital Letter Upsilon with Vrachy
Cased	Yes
Changes When Casemapped	Yes
Changes When Titlecased	Yes
Changes When Uppercased	Yes
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	Lower