U+1FA3 "" Greek Small Letter Omega with Dasia and Varia and Ypogegrammeni Unicode Character

Unicode Version 18.0

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U+1FA3 "" Greek Small Letter Omega with Dasia and Varia and Ypogegrammeni is a precomposed polytonic Greek character used in ancient and liturgical Greek texts, combining the omega letter with a dasia (rough breathing mark indicating an initial 'h' sound), a varia (grave accent marking low pitch), and a ypogegrammeni (an iota subscript written beneath the omega to denote a long diphthong that lost its pronunciation over time). This complex character represents a specific phonetic and accentual form of the omega, often appearing in scholarly editions of classical works or religious manuscripts to precisely convey the original spelling and prosody. Its inclusion in Unicode allows digital preservation and accurate rendering of these historically significant textual features without requiring separate combining marks.

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding
ᾣ
HTML Hex Encoding
ᾣ
UTF-8 Encoding
0xE1 0xBE 0xA3
UTF-16 Encoding
0x1FA3
UTF-32 Encoding
0x00001FA3
C/C++/Java Escape
\u1fa3