U+1F6A "" Greek Capital Letter Omega with Psili and Varia Unicode Character

Unicode Version 18.0

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U+1F6A "" Greek Capital Letter Omega with Psili and Varia is a polytonic Greek letter used in ancient and liturgical texts to represent the long omega sound with two diacritical marks: the psili, indicating a smooth breathing (no initial /h/ sound), and the varia, denoting a falling or grave pitch accent. This character is encoded in the Unicode standard to support the accurate typesetting of classical Greek, where such combinations of breathing and accent marks are essential for preserving pronunciation and grammatical meaning. It appears primarily in scholarly editions, theological writings, and historical reproductions, allowing digital representation of a specific orthographic tradition that distinguishes between different tonal and breath patterns in ancient Greek.

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding
Ὢ
HTML Hex Encoding
Ὢ
UTF-8 Encoding
0xE1 0xBD 0xAA
UTF-16 Encoding
0x1F6A
UTF-32 Encoding
0x00001F6A
C/C++/Java Escape
\u1f6a