Ὸ is the Unicode character GREEK CAPITAL LETTER OMICRON WITH VARIA, code point U+1FF8 (decimal 8184) in the Greek Extended block, added in Unicode 1.1. In HTML write Ὸ, and in UTF-8 it is the 3 bytes E1 BF B8.
Codes
| Where | How to write it |
|---|---|
| Code point | U+1FF8 |
| Decimal | 8184 |
| UTF-8 bytes | E1 BF B8 |
| UTF-16 (big-endian) | 1FF8 |
| UTF-32 | 00001FF8 |
| HTML decimal | Ὸ |
| HTML hex | Ὸ |
| CSS | \1FF8 |
| JavaScript | \u1FF8 |
| JSON | \u1FF8 |
| Python | \u1FF8 |
| Python by name | \N{GREEK CAPITAL LETTER OMICRON WITH VARIA} |
| Java, C# | \u1FF8 |
| Rust, Swift | \u{1FF8} |
| Go, C, C++ | \u1FF8 |
| URL (percent-encoded) | %E1%BF%B8 |
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 OMICRON WITH VARIA |
| Code point | U+1FF8 (decimal 8184) |
| 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 OMICRON WITH VARIA is canonically equivalent to the sequence below. Normalising text to NFD splits it into these parts; NFC joins them back into U+1FF8. Search and comparison should normalise first, or the two spellings will not match.
Upper and lower case
- ὸ U+1F78 Greek Small Letter Omicron With Varia — Lowercase
Nearby in Greek Extended
- ῭ 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
- ῷ U+1FF7 Greek Small Letter Omega With Perispomeni And Ypogegrammeni
- Ό U+1FF9 Greek Capital Letter Omicron With Oxia
- Ὼ U+1FFA Greek Capital Letter Omega With Varia
- Ώ U+1FFB Greek Capital Letter Omega With Oxia
- ῼ U+1FFC Greek Capital Letter Omega With Prosgegrammeni
- ´ U+1FFD Greek Oxia
- ῾ U+1FFE Greek Dasia
All 233 characters: Greek Extended.
Official reference
Questions people ask
- What is the HTML code for Ὸ?
- Use Ὸ (decimal) or Ὸ (hex).
- What is the UTF-8 encoding of U+1FF8?
- E1 BF B8 (hex), 3 bytes. In a URL it is %E1%BF%B8.
- How do I write U+1FF8 in JavaScript or Python?
- JavaScript: \u1FF8. Python: \u1FF8.
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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