U+03D3 "ϓ" Greek Upsilon with Acute and Hook Symbol Unicode Character

Unicode Version 18.0

ϓ
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U+03D3 "ϓ" Greek Upsilon with Acute and Hook Symbol is a variant of the Greek letter upsilon, combining an acute accent and a hook diacritic for specialized phonetic or historical transcriptions. This character is primarily used in polytonic Greek orthography to represent a specific tonal or breathing pattern, where the acute accent denotes a high pitch and the hook indicates a rough breathing mark, signifying an initial "h" sound in ancient Greek. It is distinct from other upsilon forms like the simple acute or the dialytika variant, and is encoded in the Unicode standard to support accurate representation of classical and medieval Greek texts where such precise diacritical combinations are required.

General Properties

Code Point
U+03D3
Name
Greek Upsilon with Acute and Hook Symbol
Unicode 1.0 Name
Greek Capital Letter Upsilon Hook Tonos

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding
ϓ
HTML Hex Encoding
ϓ
UTF-8 Encoding
0xCF 0x93
UTF-16 Encoding
0x03D3
UTF-32 Encoding
0x000003D3
C/C++/Java Escape
\u03d3