U+1FF4 "ῴ" Greek Small Letter Omega with Oxia and Ypogegrammeni Unicode Character
U+1FF4 "ῴ" Greek Small Letter Omega with Oxia and Ypogegrammeni is a polytonic Greek letter used in ancient and liturgical texts to represent a long omega vowel that carries an acute accent (oxia) and has an iota subscript (ypogegrammeni), indicating a long diphthong formed by omega with a silent iota. This character is primarily employed in ecclesiastical manuscripts and scholarly editions of Classical Greek, where it marks a specific phonetic and grammatical function, such as in subjunctive verb forms or dative singular nouns. As a precomposed Unicode entity, it simplifies digital text representation by combining the base letter and diacritics into a single code point, ensuring correct rendering in historical and linguistic typography without requiring complex combining sequences.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1FF4 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Greek Small Letter Omega with Oxia and Ypogegrammeni |
| Block | Greek Extended |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ώ" U+03CE Greek Small Letter Omega with Tonos "ͅ" U+0345 Combining Greek Ypogegrammeni |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ῴ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ῴ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xBF 0xB4 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1FF4 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001FF4 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1ff4 |