U+1FF8 "Ὸ" Greek Capital Letter Omicron with Varia Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
Ὸ
U+1FF8 "Ὸ" Greek Capital Letter Omicron with Varia is a precomposed character used in polytonic Greek script, representing the capital letter omicron combined with the varia or grave accent, which historically indicates a low or falling pitch in Ancient Greek pronunciation. This character is part of the Greek Extended block in Unicode and is employed in scholarly editions, liturgical texts, and linguistic works that require accurate representation of archaic Greek diacritics. It is typically used in contexts such as the capitalization of words that begin with a grave-accented omicron, though in modern practice the accent may be replaced by a tonos or omitted in monotonic orthography.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1FF8 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Greek Capital Letter Omicron with Varia |
| Block | Greek Extended |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "Ο" U+039F Greek Capital Letter Omicron "̀" U+0300 Combining Grave Accent |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ὸ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ὸ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xBF 0xB8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1FF8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001FF8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1ff8 |
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 | "ὸ" U+1F78 Greek Small Letter Omicron with Varia |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ὸ" U+1F78 Greek Small Letter Omicron with Varia |
| Simple Case Folding | "ὸ" U+1F78 Greek Small Letter Omicron with Varia |
| Case Folding | "ὸ" U+1F78 Greek Small Letter Omicron with Varia |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ὸ" U+1F78 Greek Small Letter Omicron with Varia |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ὸ" U+1F78 Greek Small Letter Omicron 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 |