U+1FE1 "ῡ" Greek Small Letter Upsilon with Macron Unicode Character

U+1FE1 "ῡ" Greek Small Letter Upsilon with Macron is a precomposed character representing the Greek letter upsilon combined with a macron diacritic, which indicates a long vowel sound. This character is primarily used in the transcription of ancient Greek texts, particularly for marking the long upsilon in classical languages, and it appears in scholarly editions, linguistic studies, and formal writing where precise vowel length must be conveyed. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures proper digital representation and interchange of this specialized glyph across different platforms and font sets.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1FE1
Version Added	1.1
Name	Greek Small Letter Upsilon with Macron
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+0304 Combining Macron

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ῡ
HTML Hex Encoding	ῡ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE1 0xBF 0xA1
UTF-16 Encoding	0x1FE1
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00001FE1
C/C++/Java Escape	\u1fe1

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	"Ῡ" U+1FE9 Greek Capital Letter Upsilon with Macron
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"Ῡ" U+1FE9 Greek Capital Letter Upsilon with Macron
Uppercase Code Point	"Ῡ" U+1FE9 Greek Capital Letter Upsilon with Macron
Titlecase Code Point	"Ῡ" U+1FE9 Greek Capital Letter Upsilon with Macron
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