Ύ is the Unicode character GREEK CAPITAL LETTER UPSILON WITH OXIA, code point U+1FEB (decimal 8171) in the Greek Extended block, added in Unicode 1.1. In HTML write Ύ, and in UTF-8 it is the 3 bytes E1 BF AB.
Codes
| Where | How to write it |
|---|---|
| Code point | U+1FEB |
| Decimal | 8171 |
| UTF-8 bytes | E1 BF AB |
| UTF-16 (big-endian) | 1FEB |
| UTF-32 | 00001FEB |
| HTML decimal | Ύ |
| HTML hex | Ύ |
| CSS | \1FEB |
| JavaScript | \u1FEB |
| JSON | \u1FEB |
| Python | \u1FEB |
| Python by name | \N{GREEK CAPITAL LETTER UPSILON WITH OXIA} |
| Java, C# | \u1FEB |
| Rust, Swift | \u{1FEB} |
| Go, C, C++ | \u1FEB |
| URL (percent-encoded) | %E1%BF%AB |
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 OXIA |
| Code point | U+1FEB (decimal 8171) |
| 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 OXIA is canonically equivalent to the sequence below. Normalising text to NFD splits it into these parts; NFC joins them back into U+1FEB. Search and comparison should normalise first, or the two spellings will not match.
Upper and lower case
- ύ U+1F7B Greek Small Letter Upsilon With Oxia — Lowercase
Nearby in Greek Extended
- ΰ U+1FE3 Greek Small Letter Upsilon With Dialytika And Oxia
- ῤ U+1FE4 Greek Small Letter Rho With Psili
- ῥ U+1FE5 Greek Small Letter Rho With Dasia
- ῦ U+1FE6 Greek Small Letter Upsilon With Perispomeni
- ῧ U+1FE7 Greek Small Letter Upsilon With Dialytika And Perispomeni
- Ῠ U+1FE8 Greek Capital Letter Upsilon With Vrachy
- Ῡ U+1FE9 Greek Capital Letter Upsilon With Macron
- Ὺ U+1FEA Greek Capital Letter Upsilon With Varia
- Ῥ U+1FEC Greek Capital Letter Rho With Dasia
- ῭ U+1FED Greek Dialytika And Varia
- ΅ U+1FEE Greek Dialytika And Oxia
- ` U+1FEF Greek Varia
- ῲ U+1FF2 Greek Small Letter Omega With Varia And Ypogegrammeni
- ῳ U+1FF3 Greek Small Letter Omega With Ypogegrammeni
- ῴ U+1FF4 Greek Small Letter Omega With Oxia And Ypogegrammeni
- ῶ U+1FF6 Greek Small Letter Omega With Perispomeni
All 233 characters: Greek Extended.
Official reference
Questions people ask
- What is the HTML code for Ύ?
- Use Ύ (decimal) or Ύ (hex).
- What is the UTF-8 encoding of U+1FEB?
- E1 BF AB (hex), 3 bytes. In a URL it is %E1%BF%AB.
- How do I write U+1FEB in JavaScript or Python?
- JavaScript: \u1FEB. Python: \u1FEB.
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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