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Glyph for U+038A
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U+038A Greek Capital Letter Iota with Tonos

U+038A was added to Unicode in version 1.1 (1993). It belongs to the block U+0370 to U+03FF Greek and Coptic in the U+0000 to U+FFFF Basic Multilingual Plane.

This character is a Uppercase Letter and is mainly used in the Greek script. It is related to its lowercase variant Glyph for U+03AF Greek Small Letter Iota with Tonos.

The glyph is a Canonical composition of the glyphs Glyph for U+0399 Greek Capital Letter Iota, Glyph for U+0301 Combining Acute Accent. It has a Neutral East Asian Width. In bidirectional context it acts as Left To Right and is not mirrored. In text U+038A behaves as Alphabetic regarding line breaks. It has type Upper for sentence and Alphabetic Letter for word breaks. The Grapheme Cluster Break is Any.

The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:

Greek orthography has used a variety of diacritics starting in the Hellenistic period. The more complex polytonic orthography (Greek: πολυτονικό σύστημα γραφής, romanized: polytonikó sýstīma grafī́s), which includes five diacritics, notates Ancient Greek phonology. The simpler monotonic orthography (Greek: μονοτονικό σύστημα γραφής, romanized: monotonikó sýstīma grafīs), introduced in 1982, corresponds to Modern Greek phonology, and requires only two diacritics.

Polytonic orthography (from Ancient Greek πολύς (polýs) 'much, many', and τόνος (tónos) 'accent') is the standard system for Ancient Greek and Medieval Greek. The acute accent (´), the circumflex (ˆ), and the grave accent (`) indicate different kinds of pitch accent. The rough breathing (῾) indicates the presence of the /h/ sound before a letter, while the smooth breathing (᾿) indicates the absence of /h/.

Since in Modern Greek the pitch accent has been replaced by a dynamic accent (stress), and /h/ was lost, most polytonic diacritics have no phonetic significance, and merely reveal the underlying Ancient Greek etymology.

Monotonic orthography (from Ancient Greek μόνος (mónos) 'single', and τόνος (tónos) 'accent') is the standard system for Modern Greek. It retains two diacritics: a single accent or tonos (΄) that indicates stress, and the diaeresis ( ¨ ), which usually indicates a hiatus but occasionally indicates a diphthong: compare modern Greek παϊδάκια (/paiðakia/, "lamb chops"), with a diphthong, and παιδάκια (/peˈðakia/, "little children") with a simple vowel. A tonos and a diaeresis can be combined on a single vowel to indicate a stressed vowel after a hiatus, as in the verb ταΐζω (/taˈizo/, "I feed").

Although it is not a diacritic, the hypodiastole (comma) has in a similar way the function of a sound-changing diacritic in a handful of Greek words, principally distinguishing ό,τι (ó,ti, "whatever") from ότι (óti, "that").

Representations

System Representation
906
UTF-8 CE 8A
UTF-16 03 8A
UTF-32 00 00 03 8A
URL-Quoted %CE%8A
HTML hex reference Ί
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake Ί
Encoding: ISO-8859-7 (hex bytes) BA
Encoding: WINDOWS-1253 (hex bytes) BA
LATEX \'{}{I}
Adobe Glyph List Iotatonos
digraph I%

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Property Value
Age 1.1 (1993)
Unicode Name GREEK CAPITAL LETTER IOTA WITH TONOS
Unicode 1 Name GREEK CAPITAL LETTER IOTA TONOS
Block Greek and Coptic
General Category Uppercase Letter
Script Greek
Bidirectional Category Left To Right
Combining Class Not Reordered
Decomposition Type Canonical
Decomposition Mapping Glyph for U+0399 Greek Capital Letter Iota Glyph for U+0301 Combining Acute Accent
Lowercase
Simple Lowercase Mapping Glyph for U+03AF Greek Small Letter Iota with Tonos
Lowercase Mapping Glyph for U+03AF Greek Small Letter Iota with Tonos
Uppercase
Simple Uppercase Mapping Glyph for U+038A Greek Capital Letter Iota with Tonos
Uppercase Mapping Glyph for U+038A Greek Capital Letter Iota with Tonos
Simple Titlecase Mapping Glyph for U+038A Greek Capital Letter Iota with Tonos
Titlecase Mapping Glyph for U+038A Greek Capital Letter Iota with Tonos
Case Folding Glyph for U+03AF Greek Small Letter Iota with Tonos
ASCII Hex Digit
Alphabetic
Bidi Control
Bidi Mirrored
Composition Exclusion
Case Ignorable
Changes When Casefolded
Changes When Casemapped
Changes When NFKC Casefolded
Changes When Lowercased
Changes When Titlecased
Changes When Uppercased
Cased
Full Composition Exclusion
Default Ignorable Code Point
Dash
Deprecated
Diacritic
Emoji Modifier Base
Emoji Component
Emoji Modifier
Emoji Presentation
Emoji
Extender
Extended Pictographic
FC NFKC Closure Glyph for U+038A Greek Capital Letter Iota with Tonos
Grapheme Cluster Break Any
Grapheme Base
Grapheme Extend
Grapheme Link
Hex Digit
Hyphen
ID Continue
ID Start
IDS Binary Operator
IDS Trinary Operator and
IDSU 0
ID_Compat_Math_Continue 0
ID_Compat_Math_Start 0
Ideographic
InCB None
Indic Mantra Category
Indic Positional Category NA
Indic Syllabic Category Other
Jamo Short Name
Join Control
Logical Order Exception
Math
Noncharacter Code Point
NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check No
NFKC Casefold Glyph for U+03AF Greek Small Letter Iota with Tonos
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKC_SCF Glyph for U+03AF Greek Small Letter Iota with Tonos
NFKD Quick Check No
Other Alphabetic
Other Default Ignorable Code Point
Other Grapheme Extend
Other ID Continue
Other ID Start
Other Lowercase
Other Math
Other Uppercase
Prepended Concatenation Mark
Pattern Syntax
Pattern White Space
Quotation Mark
Regional Indicator
Radical
Sentence Break Upper
Soft Dotted
Sentence Terminal
Terminal Punctuation
Unified Ideograph
Variation Selector
Word Break Alphabetic Letter
White Space
XID Continue
XID Start
Expands On NFC
Expands On NFD
Expands On NFKC
Expands On NFKD
Bidi Paired Bracket Glyph for U+038A Greek Capital Letter Iota with Tonos
Bidi Paired Bracket Type None
East Asian Width Neutral
Hangul Syllable Type Not Applicable
ISO 10646 Comment
Joining Group No_Joining_Group
Joining Type Non Joining
Line Break Alphabetic
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value not a number
Simple Case Folding Glyph for U+03AF Greek Small Letter Iota with Tonos
Script Extension
Vertical Orientation R