U+1FEF "`" Greek Varia Unicode Character

U+1FEF "`" Greek Varia is a combining diacritical mark used in ancient and polytonic Greek orthography, representing a high-to-low pitch accent on a vowel. It is visually similar to a grave accent but is historically distinct, often appearing on the final syllable of a word to indicate a falling tone in classical Greek pronunciation. This character is encoded separately from the standard grave accent in Unicode to preserve its specific linguistic function in Greek texts.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1FEF
Version Added	1.1
Name	Greek Varia
Block	Greek Extended
General Category	Modifier Symbol
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Other Neutral
Decomposition Type	Canonical
Decomposition Mapping	"`" U+0060 Grave Accent

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	`
HTML Hex Encoding	`
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE1 0xBF 0xAF
UTF-16 Encoding	0x1FEF
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00001FEF
C/C++/Java Escape	\u1fef

Unicode Properties

Full Composition Exclusion	Yes
Numeric Type	None
Numeric Value	NaN
Line Break	Alphabetic
Case Ignorable	Yes
Changes When NFKC Casefolded	Yes
NFKC Casefold	"`" U+0060 Grave Accent
NFKC Simple Casefold	"`" U+0060 Grave Accent
Script	Greek
Script Extensions	Greek
Indic Syllabic Category	Other
Diacritic	Yes
Vertical Orientation	Rotated
Grapheme Base	Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break	Other
Word Break	Other
Sentence Break	Other