U+1FC6 "ῆ" Greek Small Letter Eta with Perispomeni Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
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U+1FC6 "ῆ" Greek Small Letter Eta with Perispomeni is a precomposed character used in the Greek script, specifically for writing polytonic Greek, where it represents the letter eta (η) combined with the perispomeni diacritic, which indicates a rising-falling pitch accent in ancient Greek pronunciation. This character is part of the Unicode Greek Extended block and is often encountered in scholarly texts, historical documents, and liturgical contexts that preserve older orthographic conventions. It allows for more precise representation of ancient Greek accents without needing separate combining marks, simplifying text handling in digital environments.
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Greek Small Letter Eta with Perispomeni and Ypogegrammeni
General Properties
Code Point
U+1FC6
Name
Greek Small Letter Eta with Perispomeni
Decomposition Mapping
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
ῆ
HTML Hex Encoding
ῆ
UTF-8 Encoding
0xE1 0xBF 0x86
UTF-16 Encoding
0x1FC6
UTF-32 Encoding
0x00001FC6
C/C++/Java Escape
\u1fc6
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
Uppercase Code Point
Titlecase Code Point
Script Extensions
Greek