U+1FED "῭" Greek Dialytika and Varia Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
Source: Browser Default
U+1FED "῭" Greek Dialytika and Varia is a precomposed Greek diacritical mark used in polytonic orthography, combining the dialytika (diaeresis) and the varia (grave accent) over a capital vowel space, typically applied to an implied iota or upsilon to indicate both separate pronunciation and a falling pitch. Historically, it appears in classical and liturgical Greek texts where two distinct diacritics are needed above a single vowel, such as in the word "καὶ" (meaning "and") when accented, to denote a specific tonal and syllabic function. This character is now primarily encountered in scholarly editions of ancient Greek works or in specialized typography, as modern Greek largely uses monotonic accentuation instead.
General Properties
Code Point
U+1FED
Name
Greek Dialytika and Varia
Decomposition Mapping
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
῭
HTML Hex Encoding
῭
UTF-8 Encoding
0xE1 0xBF 0xAD
UTF-16 Encoding
0x1FED
UTF-32 Encoding
0x00001FED
C/C++/Java Escape
\u1fed
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
NFKC Simple Casefold
Script Extensions
Greek