U+1FE9 "Ῡ" Greek Capital Letter Upsilon with Macron Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1FE9 "Ῡ" Greek Capital Letter Upsilon with Macron is a precomposed character representing the Greek letter Upsilon (Υ) with a macron diacritic, a horizontal line placed above the letter indicating a long vowel sound. It is used in the polytonic orthography of Ancient Greek to denote a long upsilon, typically in academic or liturgical contexts. This character belongs to the "Greek and Coptic" block of the Unicode standard and serves as a single codepoint alternative to the sequence of Greek capital letter upsilon followed by a combining macron, ensuring consistent rendering and legacy support.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1FE9 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Greek Capital Letter Upsilon with Macron |
| 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+0304 Combining Macron |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ῡ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ῡ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xBF 0xA9 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1FE9 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001FE9 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1fe9 |
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 | "ῡ" U+1FE1 Greek Small Letter Upsilon with Macron |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ῡ" U+1FE1 Greek Small Letter Upsilon with Macron |
| Simple Case Folding | "ῡ" U+1FE1 Greek Small Letter Upsilon with Macron |
| Case Folding | "ῡ" U+1FE1 Greek Small Letter Upsilon with Macron |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ῡ" U+1FE1 Greek Small Letter Upsilon with Macron |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ῡ" U+1FE1 Greek Small Letter Upsilon with Macron |
| 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 |