U+1FA9 "" Greek Capital Letter Omega with Dasia and Prosgegrammeni Unicode Character

Unicode Version 18.0

Source: Noto Sans Source: Browser Default

U+1FA9 "" Greek Capital Letter Omega with Dasia and Prosgegrammeni is a precomposed polytonic Greek letter used in ancient and liturgical texts, combining a capital omega with the dasia diacritic, which indicates rough breathing, and the prosgegrammeni, a small iota subscript written alongside the letter to represent a long vowel sound. This character typically appears in words where an initial vowel or diphthong, such as omega followed by a long iota, requires both an aspirated pronunciation and a specific grammatical function, often in contexts like the nominative or vocative case of feminine nouns or adjectives. Represented in Unicode for compatibility with legacy encoding systems, it allows modern digital text to preserve the precise orthographic details of classical and medieval Greek manuscripts without needing separate combining marks.

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding
ᾩ
HTML Hex Encoding
ᾩ
UTF-8 Encoding
0xE1 0xBE 0xA9
UTF-16 Encoding
0x1FA9
UTF-32 Encoding
0x00001FA9
C/C++/Java Escape
\u1fa9