U+1FC9 "Έ" Greek Capital Letter Epsilon with Oxia Unicode Character

Unicode Version 18.0

Έ
Source: Noto Sans Source: Browser Default

U+1FC9 "Έ" Greek Capital Letter Epsilon with Oxia is a precomposed character used in polytonic Greek orthography, representing the Greek capital letter epsilon (Ε) with an oxia mark, which historically indicates a high or acute pitch accent. This character is part of the Greek Extended block and is primarily employed in classical and liturgical texts to accurately transcribe ancient Greek prosody or specific stress conventions. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures that scholars and typographers can digitally represent this precise diacritic combination without needing to combine separate characters.

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Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding
Έ
HTML Hex Encoding
Έ
UTF-8 Encoding
0xE1 0xBF 0x89
UTF-16 Encoding
0x1FC9
UTF-32 Encoding
0x00001FC9
C/C++/Java Escape
\u1fc9