U+1F4B "Ὃ" Greek Capital Letter Omicron with Dasia and Varia Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
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U+1F4B "Ὃ" Greek Capital Letter Omicron with Dasia and Varia is a precomposed polytonic Greek letter primarily used in classical and liturgical texts to represent a specific pronunciation and accentuation of the vowel omicron. The dasia, or rough breathing mark, indicates an initial /h/ sound, while the varia, or grave accent, denotes a lower or falling pitch in ancient Greek orthography. This character is rarely encountered in modern Greek writing, which uses monotonic accents, but it remains essential for scholarly editions of ancient works and religious manuscripts that preserve traditional diacritical conventions.
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General Properties
Code Point
U+1F4B
Name
Greek Capital Letter Omicron with Dasia and Varia
Decomposition Mapping
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
Ὃ
HTML Hex Encoding
Ὃ
UTF-8 Encoding
0xE1 0xBD 0x8B
UTF-16 Encoding
0x1F4B
UTF-32 Encoding
0x00001F4B
C/C++/Java Escape
\u1f4b
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
Simple Lowercase Code Point
Lowercase Code Point
Simple Case Folding
NFKC Simple Casefold
Script Extensions
Greek