Ὑ is the Unicode character GREEK CAPITAL LETTER UPSILON WITH DASIA, code point U+1F59 (decimal 8025) in the Greek Extended block, added in Unicode 1.1. In HTML write Ὑ, and in UTF-8 it is the 3 bytes E1 BD 99.
Codes
| Where | How to write it |
|---|---|
| Code point | U+1F59 |
| Decimal | 8025 |
| UTF-8 bytes | E1 BD 99 |
| UTF-16 (big-endian) | 1F59 |
| UTF-32 | 00001F59 |
| HTML decimal | Ὑ |
| HTML hex | Ὑ |
| CSS | \1F59 |
| JavaScript | \u1F59 |
| JSON | \u1F59 |
| Python | \u1F59 |
| Python by name | \N{GREEK CAPITAL LETTER UPSILON WITH DASIA} |
| Java, C# | \u1F59 |
| Rust, Swift | \u{1F59} |
| Go, C, C++ | \u1F59 |
| URL (percent-encoded) | %E1%BD%99 |
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
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Name | GREEK CAPITAL LETTER UPSILON WITH DASIA |
| Code point | U+1F59 (decimal 8025) |
| Block | Greek Extended (U+1F00–U+1FFF) |
| General category | Lu: Uppercase letter |
| Script | Greek |
| Bidirectional class | L: Left-to-right |
| Mirrored in right-to-left text | No |
| First in Unicode version | 1.1 |
Decomposition
GREEK CAPITAL LETTER UPSILON WITH DASIA is canonically equivalent to the sequence below. Normalising text to NFD splits it into these parts; NFC joins them back into U+1F59. Search and comparison should normalise first, or the two spellings will not match.
Upper and lower case
- ὑ U+1F51 Greek Small Letter Upsilon With Dasia — Lowercase
Nearby in Greek Extended
- ὐ U+1F50 Greek Small Letter Upsilon With Psili
- ὑ U+1F51 Greek Small Letter Upsilon With Dasia
- ὒ U+1F52 Greek Small Letter Upsilon With Psili And Varia
- ὓ U+1F53 Greek Small Letter Upsilon With Dasia And Varia
- ὔ U+1F54 Greek Small Letter Upsilon With Psili And Oxia
- ὕ U+1F55 Greek Small Letter Upsilon With Dasia And Oxia
- ὖ U+1F56 Greek Small Letter Upsilon With Psili And Perispomeni
- ὗ U+1F57 Greek Small Letter Upsilon With Dasia And Perispomeni
- Ὓ U+1F5B Greek Capital Letter Upsilon With Dasia And Varia
- Ὕ U+1F5D Greek Capital Letter Upsilon With Dasia And Oxia
- Ὗ U+1F5F Greek Capital Letter Upsilon With Dasia And Perispomeni
- ὠ U+1F60 Greek Small Letter Omega With Psili
- ὡ U+1F61 Greek Small Letter Omega With Dasia
- ὢ U+1F62 Greek Small Letter Omega With Psili And Varia
- ὣ U+1F63 Greek Small Letter Omega With Dasia And Varia
- ὤ U+1F64 Greek Small Letter Omega With Psili And Oxia
All 233 characters: Greek Extended.
Official reference
Questions people ask
- What is the HTML code for Ὑ?
- Use Ὑ (decimal) or Ὑ (hex).
- What is the UTF-8 encoding of U+1F59?
- E1 BD 99 (hex), 3 bytes. In a URL it is %E1%BD%99.
- How do I write U+1F59 in JavaScript or Python?
- JavaScript: \u1F59. Python: \u1F59.
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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