U+1FEA "Ὺ" Greek Capital Letter Upsilon with Varia Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1FEA "Ὺ" Greek Capital Letter Upsilon with Varia is a precomposed character used in the polytonic orthography of Ancient Greek, representing the capital letter Upsilon (Υ) combined with the varia accent (`), which indicates a falling pitch or a grave tone in historical pronunciation. This character is part of the Greek Extended Unicode block and is typically employed in scholarly texts, liturgical writings, or linguistic reconstructions where the full range of ancient Greek diacritical marks is required to preserve correct tonal and grammatical distinctions.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1FEA |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Greek Capital Letter Upsilon with Varia |
| 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+0300 Combining Grave Accent |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ὺ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ὺ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xBF 0xAA |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1FEA |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001FEA |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1fea |
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 | "ὺ" U+1F7A Greek Small Letter Upsilon with Varia |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ὺ" U+1F7A Greek Small Letter Upsilon with Varia |
| Simple Case Folding | "ὺ" U+1F7A Greek Small Letter Upsilon with Varia |
| Case Folding | "ὺ" U+1F7A Greek Small Letter Upsilon with Varia |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ὺ" U+1F7A Greek Small Letter Upsilon with Varia |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ὺ" U+1F7A Greek Small Letter Upsilon with Varia |
| 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 |