U+03AB "Ϋ" Greek Capital Letter Upsilon with Dialytika Unicode Character

Unicode Version 18.0

Ϋ
Source: Noto Sans Source: Browser Default

U+03AB "Ϋ" Greek Capital Letter Upsilon with Dialytika is a precomposed letter in the Greek script, representing the capital form of the vowel upsilon combined with a dialytika, which is two dots placed over the letter. This diacritic mark indicates that the upsilon is to be pronounced separately from a preceding vowel, typically to prevent it from forming a diphthong, much like the umlaut or diaeresis in other alphabets. In modern Greek, it appears in words such as "Ϋμνος" where it distinguishes pronunciation, and it is used in scholarly or linguistic contexts to denote a distinct syllabic value. The character is part of the Greek and Coptic block in Unicode and is encoded for digital text to accurately represent this specific orthographic form.

General Properties

Code Point
U+03AB
Name
Greek Capital Letter Upsilon with Dialytika
Unicode 1.0 Name
Greek Capital Letter Upsilon Diaeresis

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding
Ϋ
HTML Hex Encoding
Ϋ
UTF-8 Encoding
0xCE 0xAB
UTF-16 Encoding
0x03AB
UTF-32 Encoding
0x000003AB
C/C++/Java Escape
\u03ab