U+1FE5 "ῥ" Greek Small Letter Rho with Dasia Unicode Character

U+1FE5 "ῥ" Greek Small Letter Rho with Dasia is a historical Greek letter used in ancient polytonic orthography. It consists of a lowercase rho combined with a dasia, or rough breathing mark, which indicates that the consonant should be aspirated, pronounced like an English "r" followed by a puff of air, similar to the "rh" in "rhythm." This character was primarily employed in classical and medieval Greek texts, often at the beginning of words, to distinguish aspirated rho from its unaspirated counterpart, and it remains of interest to scholars and typographers working with ancient Greek language and manuscripts.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1FE5
Version Added	1.1
Name	Greek Small Letter Rho with Dasia
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+0314 Combining Reversed Comma Above

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ῥ
HTML Hex Encoding	ῥ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE1 0xBF 0xA5
UTF-16 Encoding	0x1FE5
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00001FE5
C/C++/Java Escape	\u1fe5

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	"Ῥ" U+1FEC Greek Capital Letter Rho with Dasia
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"Ῥ" U+1FEC Greek Capital Letter Rho with Dasia
Uppercase Code Point	"Ῥ" U+1FEC Greek Capital Letter Rho with Dasia
Titlecase Code Point	"Ῥ" U+1FEC Greek Capital Letter Rho with Dasia
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