U+1FEE "΅" Greek Dialytika and Oxia Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
΅
U+1FEE "΅" Greek Dialytika and Oxia is a combined diacritical mark used in ancient and polytonic Greek writing, specifically representing a vowel that carries both a diaeresis (dialytika) to indicate it is pronounced separately from a preceding vowel and an acute accent (oxia) marking high pitch or stress. This character forms part of the historical Greek orthographic system, commonly applied to the letter upsilon or iota in words where the vowel needs both a disambiguating umlaut and a tonal or stress marker, as seen in classical texts or liturgical Greek. Its use is largely limited to scholarly, linguistic, or ecclesiastical contexts, as modern Greek typically employs a simpler monotonic accent system without such combined diacritics.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1FEE |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Greek Dialytika and Oxia |
| Block | Greek Extended |
| General Category | Modifier Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "΅" U+0385 Greek Dialytika Tonos |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ΅ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ΅ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xBF 0xAE |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1FEE |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001FEE |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1fee |