U+1F59 "" Greek Capital Letter Upsilon with Dasia Unicode Character

Unicode Version 18.0

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U+1F59 "" Greek Capital Letter Upsilon with Dasia is a historical Greek letter used in polytonic orthography, where the dasia, or rough breathing mark, indicates that the initial vowel or diphthong should be pronounced with an "h" sound, as in the English word "hat." Specifically applied to the capital letter Upsilon, this character appears in ancient and medieval Greek texts to denote the aspirated form of the vowel and is part of the Unicode block dedicated to Greek and Coptic script, ensuring proper digital representation for scholarly works, linguistics, and typography involving classical Greek language.

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding
Ὑ
HTML Hex Encoding
Ὑ
UTF-8 Encoding
0xE1 0xBD 0x99
UTF-16 Encoding
0x1F59
UTF-32 Encoding
0x00001F59
C/C++/Java Escape
\u1f59