U+1FCC "" Greek Capital Letter Eta with Prosgegrammeni Unicode Character

Unicode Version 18.0

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U+1FCC "" Greek Capital Letter Eta with Prosgegrammeni is a historic Greek typographic form representing the letter eta (Η) combined with a subscript iota, known as the "prosgegrammeni" or adscript iota, which appears as a small iota shape attached to the lower right of the capital letter. This character was used in ancient and medieval Greek texts to indicate a long vowel sound where an original iota had become silent or lost in pronunciation, functioning as a diacritical mark rather than a separate letter. It is distinct from the modern Greek lowercase iota subscript (used with vowels like ᾳ, ῃ, ῳ) but serves a similar grammatical role in denoting specific Greek verb forms or dative cases, and it is encoded separately for compatibility with historical writing systems and scholarly transcription of ancient manuscripts.

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding
ῌ
HTML Hex Encoding
ῌ
UTF-8 Encoding
0xE1 0xBF 0x8C
UTF-16 Encoding
0x1FCC
UTF-32 Encoding
0x00001FCC
C/C++/Java Escape
\u1fcc