This character is a Modifier Symbol and is mainly used in the Greek script.
The glyph is a compatibility composition of the glyphs Glyph for U+0020Space, Glyph for U+0313Combining Comma Above. It has no designated width in East Asian texts. In bidirectional text it acts as Other Neutral. When changing direction it is not mirrored. The word that U+1FBF forms with similar adjacent characters prevents a line break inside it. The glyph can be confused with one other glyph.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
The smooth breathing (Ancient Greek: ψιλὸν πνεῦμα, romanized: psilòn pneûma; Greek: ψιλήpsilí; Latin: spiritus lenis) is a diacritical mark used in polytonic orthography. In Ancient Greek, it marks the absence of the voiceless glottal fricative /h/ from the beginning of a word.
Some authorities have interpreted it as representing a glottal stop, but a final vowel at the end of a word is regularly elided (removed) when the following word starts with a vowel and elision would not happen if the second word began with a glottal stop (or any other form of stop consonant). In his Vox Graeca, W. Sidney Allen accordingly regards the glottal stop interpretation as "highly improbable".
The smooth breathing mark ( ᾿ ) is written as on top of one initial vowel, on top of the second vowel of a diphthong or to the left of a capital and also, in certain editions, on the first of a pair of rhos. It did not occur on an initial upsilon, which always has rough breathing (thus the early name ὕhy, rather than ὔy) except in certain pre-Koine dialects which had lost aspiration much earlier.
The smooth breathing was kept in the traditional polytonic orthography even after the /h/ sound had disappeared from the language in Hellenistic times. It has been dropped in the modern monotonic orthography.
Representations
System
Representation (click value to copy)
Nº
8127
UTF-8
E1 BE BF
UTF-16
1F BF
UTF-32
00 00 1F BF
URL-Quoted
%E1%BE%BF
HTML hex reference
᾿
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake
◌᾿
Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes)
81 36 9D 31
RFC 5137
\u'1FBF'
Bash and Zsh inside echo -e
\u1FBF
C and C++
\u1FBF
C#
\u1FBF
CSS
\001FBF
Excel
=UNICHAR(8127)
Go
\u1FBF
JavaScript
\u1FBF
Modern JavaScript since ES6
\u{1fbf}
JSON
\u1FBF
Java
\u1FBF
Lua
\u{1FBF}
Matlab
char(8127)
Perl
"\x{1FBF}"
PHP
\u{1fbf}
PostgreSQL
U&'\1FBF'
PowerShell
`u{1FBF}
Python
\u1FBF
Ruby
\u{1fbf}
Rust
\u{1fbf}
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