U+1FE4 "ῤ" Greek Small Letter Rho with Psili Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1FE4 "ῤ" Greek Small Letter Rho with Psili is a specific variant of the Greek letter rho, distinguished by the diacritical mark known as psili, which resembles a smooth breathing mark and indicates the absence of an initial "h" sound in Ancient Greek pronunciation. This character is used in ancient Greek texts, particularly in contexts where the rho appears at the beginning of a word or syllable and is marked as unaspirated, contrasting with the rough breathing mark (dasía) that indicates an aspirated rho. It belongs to the Greek Extended Unicode block and is encoded for scholarly and typographic purposes to accurately represent historical Greek orthography.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1FE4 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Greek Small Letter Rho with Psili |
| Block | Greek Extended |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ρ" U+03C1 Greek Small Letter Rho "̓" U+0313 Combining Comma Above |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ῤ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ῤ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xBF 0xA4 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1FE4 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001FE4 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1fe4 |