U+1FFA "Ὼ" Greek Capital Letter Omega with Varia Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
Ὼ
U+1FFA "Ὼ" Greek Capital Letter Omega with Varia is a precomposed character used in polytonic Greek orthography, representing the letter omega with a varia, or grave accent, indicating a low or falling pitch in Ancient Greek pronunciation. This character appears primarily in older or scholarly texts that preserve the classical Greek tonal accent system, though it is less common in modern Greek writing, which uses a monotonic system. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures that historical and linguistic documents can be accurately represented in digital form without relying on separate combining characters.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1FFA |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Greek Capital Letter Omega with Varia |
| Block | Greek Extended |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "Ω" U+03A9 Greek Capital Letter Omega "̀" U+0300 Combining Grave Accent |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ὼ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ὼ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xBF 0xBA |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1FFA |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001FFA |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1ffa |
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 | "ὼ" U+1F7C Greek Small Letter Omega with Varia |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ὼ" U+1F7C Greek Small Letter Omega with Varia |
| Simple Case Folding | "ὼ" U+1F7C Greek Small Letter Omega with Varia |
| Case Folding | "ὼ" U+1F7C Greek Small Letter Omega with Varia |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ὼ" U+1F7C Greek Small Letter Omega with Varia |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ὼ" U+1F7C Greek Small Letter Omega 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 |