U+1FE3 "ΰ" Greek Small Letter Upsilon with Dialytika and Oxia Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1FE3 "ΰ" Greek Small Letter Upsilon with Dialytika and Oxia is a precomposed character used in polytonic Greek orthography to represent the letter upsilon with both a diaeresis (dialytika) and an acute accent (oxia). This character signifies that the upsilon is pronounced separately from a preceding vowel and carries a high-pitched stress tone, typically appearing in ancient or liturgical Greek texts to clarify pronunciation and grammatical meaning. It is encoded in the Unicode standard within the Greek Extended block, ensuring proper display and processing across digital platforms for scholarly, religious, and linguistic purposes.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1FE3 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Greek Small Letter Upsilon with Dialytika and Oxia |
| Block | Greek Extended |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ΰ" U+03B0 Greek Small Letter Upsilon with Dialytika and Tonos |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ΰ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ΰ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xBF 0xA3 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1FE3 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001FE3 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1fe3 |