U+1FFA "Ὼ" Greek Capital Letter Omega with Varia Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
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U+1FFA "Ὼ" Greek Capital Letter Omega with Varia is a precomposed character used in polytonic Greek orthography, representing the letter omega with a varia, or grave accent, indicating a low or falling pitch in Ancient Greek pronunciation. This character appears primarily in older or scholarly texts that preserve the classical Greek tonal accent system, though it is less common in modern Greek writing, which uses a monotonic system. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures that historical and linguistic documents can be accurately represented in digital form without relying on separate combining characters.
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General Properties
Code Point
U+1FFA
Name
Greek Capital Letter Omega with Varia
Decomposition Mapping
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
Ὼ
HTML Hex Encoding
Ὼ
UTF-8 Encoding
0xE1 0xBF 0xBA
UTF-16 Encoding
0x1FFA
UTF-32 Encoding
0x00001FFA
C/C++/Java Escape
\u1ffa
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