U+1FC9 "Έ" Greek Capital Letter Epsilon with Oxia Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
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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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General Properties
Code Point
U+1FC9
Name
Greek Capital Letter Epsilon with Oxia
Decomposition Mapping
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
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
Simple Lowercase Code Point
Lowercase Code Point
Simple Case Folding
Case Folding
NFKC Casefold
NFKC Simple Casefold
Script Extensions
Greek