U+1FE6 "ῦ" Greek Small Letter Upsilon with Perispomeni Unicode Character
U+1FE6 "ῦ" Greek Small Letter Upsilon with Perispomeni is a precomposed character representing the Greek letter upsilon (υ) combined with a perispomeni, a diacritical mark used in ancient and polytonic Greek orthography to indicate a circumflex accent, typically on long vowels. It is encoded in the Unicode standard under the Greek Extended block and is often employed in scholarly texts, such as editions of classical literature or biblical manuscripts, to accurately represent the tonal pitch accent of ancient Greek. This character facilitates precise digital rendering of Greek words where the upsilon carries a rising and falling tone, as in the word “αὐτοῦς” (autous), ensuring proper typographical representation in modern computing environments.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1FE6 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Greek Small Letter Upsilon with Perispomeni |
| 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+0342 Combining Greek Perispomeni |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ῦ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ῦ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xBF 0xA6 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1FE6 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001FE6 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1fe6 |