U+1FCA "" Greek Capital Letter Eta with Varia Unicode Character

Unicode Version 18.0

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U+1FCA "" Greek Capital Letter Eta with Varia is a precomposed Greek letter used in polytonic orthography, representing the capital letter eta (Η) written with a varia, or grave accent, which historically indicated a specific pitch contour in Ancient Greek. This character is typically employed in texts that preserve classical accentuation, such as scholarly editions, liturgical works, or historical linguistic studies, where it appears in contexts like the final syllable of a word to denote a falling tone. As part of the Greek and Coptic block in Unicode, it serves to maintain accurate representation of ancient Greek writing without requiring separate combining diacritical marks, thereby aiding in consistent digital rendering for linguistic and historical documentation.

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding
Ὴ
HTML Hex Encoding
Ὴ
UTF-8 Encoding
0xE1 0xBF 0x8A
UTF-16 Encoding
0x1FCA
UTF-32 Encoding
0x00001FCA
C/C++/Java Escape
\u1fca