U+1F59 "Ὑ" Greek Capital Letter Upsilon with Dasia Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
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U+1F59 "Ὑ" 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.
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General Properties
Code Point
U+1F59
Name
Greek Capital Letter Upsilon with Dasia
Decomposition Mapping
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
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
Simple Lowercase Code Point
Lowercase Code Point
Simple Case Folding
Case Folding
NFKC Casefold
NFKC Simple Casefold
Script Extensions
Greek