Ύ Greek Capital Letter Upsilon With Tonos

Codes

JavaScript and JSON strings store text as UTF-16, so this character is one code unit long. Python 3 strings count code points, so its length there is 1.

Properties

Decomposition

GREEK CAPITAL LETTER UPSILON WITH TONOS is canonically equivalent to the sequence below. Normalising text to NFD splits it into these parts; NFC joins them back into U+038E. Search and comparison should normalise first, or the two spellings will not match.

• Υ U+03A5 Greek Capital Letter Upsilon
• U+0301 Combining Acute Accent

Upper and lower case

• ύ U+03CD Greek Small Letter Upsilon With Tonos — Lowercase

Nearby in Greek and Coptic

• ΄ U+0384 Greek Tonos
• ΅ U+0385 Greek Dialytika Tonos
• Ά U+0386 Greek Capital Letter Alpha With Tonos
• · U+0387 Greek Ano Teleia
• Έ U+0388 Greek Capital Letter Epsilon With Tonos
• Ή U+0389 Greek Capital Letter Eta With Tonos
• Ί U+038A Greek Capital Letter Iota With Tonos
• Ό U+038C Greek Capital Letter Omicron With Tonos
• Ώ U+038F Greek Capital Letter Omega With Tonos
• ΐ U+0390 Greek Small Letter Iota With Dialytika And Tonos
• Α U+0391 Greek Capital Letter Alpha
• Β U+0392 Greek Capital Letter Beta
• Γ U+0393 Greek Capital Letter Gamma
• Δ U+0394 Greek Capital Letter Delta
• Ε U+0395 Greek Capital Letter Epsilon
• Ζ U+0396 Greek Capital Letter Zeta

All 135 characters: Greek and Coptic.

Official reference

• Unicode code chart: Greek and Coptic (PDF, unicode.org)

Questions people ask

What is the HTML code for Ύ?

Use Ύ (decimal) or Ύ (hex).

What is the UTF-8 encoding of U+038E?

CE 8E (hex), 2 bytes. In a URL it is %CE%8E.

How do I write U+038E in JavaScript or Python?

JavaScript: \u038E. Python: \u038E.

Source

Unicode Character Database 18.0.0 (Unicode License v3); HTML entity names from the WHATWG HTML Standard (CC BY 4.0). The encodings above are computed from the code point and checked against Python's encoders. How the character looks depends on your fonts.

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