U+1FED "῭" Greek Dialytika and Varia Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
῭
U+1FED "῭" Greek Dialytika and Varia is a precomposed Greek diacritical mark used in polytonic orthography, combining the dialytika (diaeresis) and the varia (grave accent) over a capital vowel space, typically applied to an implied iota or upsilon to indicate both separate pronunciation and a falling pitch. Historically, it appears in classical and liturgical Greek texts where two distinct diacritics are needed above a single vowel, such as in the word "καὶ" (meaning "and") when accented, to denote a specific tonal and syllabic function. This character is now primarily encountered in scholarly editions of ancient Greek works or in specialized typography, as modern Greek largely uses monotonic accentuation instead.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1FED |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Greek Dialytika and Varia |
| Block | Greek Extended |
| General Category | Modifier Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "¨" U+00A8 Diaeresis "̀" U+0300 Combining Grave Accent |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ῭ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ῭ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xBF 0xAD |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1FED |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001FED |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1fed |