U+1FE8 "Ῠ" Greek Capital Letter Upsilon with Vrachy Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
Ῠ
U+1FE8 "Ῠ" Greek Capital Letter Upsilon with Vrachy is a precomposed character in the Greek Extended block, representing the Greek capital letter Upsilon combined with a vrachy, or breve, diacritical mark. This specific vowel character indicates a short pronunciation in ancient Greek prosody and is used in scholarly or linguistic transcriptions to denote a short tonic upsilon. The vrachy mark appears as a short curved line above the capital letter, distinguishing it from the regular uppercase Upsilon. In Unicode, this character provides a single code point for correct display and processing, avoiding the need for separate combination of a base letter and a diacritic in digital text.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1FE8 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Greek Capital Letter Upsilon with Vrachy |
| Block | Greek Extended |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "Υ" U+03A5 Greek Capital Letter Upsilon "̆" U+0306 Combining Breve |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ῠ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ῠ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xBF 0xA8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1FE8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001FE8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1fe8 |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Alphabetic |
| Uppercase | Yes |
| Simple Lowercase Code Point | "ῠ" U+1FE0 Greek Small Letter Upsilon with Vrachy |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ῠ" U+1FE0 Greek Small Letter Upsilon with Vrachy |
| Simple Case Folding | "ῠ" U+1FE0 Greek Small Letter Upsilon with Vrachy |
| Case Folding | "ῠ" U+1FE0 Greek Small Letter Upsilon with Vrachy |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ῠ" U+1FE0 Greek Small Letter Upsilon with Vrachy |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ῠ" U+1FE0 Greek Small Letter Upsilon with Vrachy |
| 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 | Upper |