U+1FD8 "Ῐ" Greek Capital Letter Iota with Vrachy Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
Source: Browser Default
U+1FD8 "Ῐ" Greek Capital Letter Iota with Vrachy is a precomposed character in the Greek and Coptic block, representing a capital iota with a breve mark above it, known as a vrachy. This diacritical combination denotes a short vowel sound in ancient Greek and is primarily used in scholarly or liturgical contexts for the accurate transcription of classical texts. It is rarely employed in modern Greek writing, where the simplified monotonic system omits such accentuation.
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General Properties
Code Point
U+1FD8
Name
Greek Capital Letter Iota with Vrachy
Decomposition Mapping
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
Ῐ
HTML Hex Encoding
Ῐ
UTF-8 Encoding
0xE1 0xBF 0x98
UTF-16 Encoding
0x1FD8
UTF-32 Encoding
0x00001FD8
C/C++/Java Escape
\u1fd8
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