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U+1FBF Greek Psili

U+1FBF was added to Unicode in version 1.1 (1993). It belongs to the block U+1F00 to U+1FFF Greek Extended in the U+0000 to U+FFFF Basic Multilingual Plane.

This character is a Modifier Symbol and is mainly used in the Greek script.

The glyph is a Compat composition of the glyphs Glyph for U+0020 Space, Glyph for U+0313 Combining Comma Above. It has a Neutral East Asian Width. In bidirectional context it acts as Other Neutral and is not mirrored. The glyph can, under circumstances, be confused with 1 other glyphs. In text U+1FBF behaves as Alphabetic regarding line breaks. It has type Other for sentence and Other for word breaks. The Grapheme Cluster Break is Any.

The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:

The smooth breathing (Ancient Greek: ψιλὸν πνεῦμα, romanized: psilòn pneûma; Greek: ψιλή psilí; Latin: spīritus lēnis) 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.S. 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 ὕ hy, rather than ὔ y) 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
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 ◌᾿

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Complete Record

Property Value
Age 1.1 (1993)
Unicode Name GREEK PSILI
Unicode 1 Name
Block Greek Extended
General Category Modifier Symbol
Script Greek
Bidirectional Category Other Neutral
Combining Class Not Reordered
Decomposition Type Compat
Decomposition Mapping Glyph for U+0020 Space Glyph for U+0313 Combining Comma Above
Lowercase
Simple Lowercase Mapping Glyph for U+1FBF Greek Psili
Lowercase Mapping Glyph for U+1FBF Greek Psili
Uppercase
Simple Uppercase Mapping Glyph for U+1FBF Greek Psili
Uppercase Mapping Glyph for U+1FBF Greek Psili
Simple Titlecase Mapping Glyph for U+1FBF Greek Psili
Titlecase Mapping Glyph for U+1FBF Greek Psili
Case Folding Glyph for U+1FBF Greek Psili
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+1FBF Greek Psili
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 Yes
NFKC Casefold Glyph for U+0020 Space Glyph for U+0313 Combining Comma Above
NFKC Quick Check No
NFKC_SCF Glyph for U+0020 Space Glyph for U+0313 Combining Comma Above
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 Other
Soft Dotted
Sentence Terminal
Terminal Punctuation
Unified Ideograph
Variation Selector
Word Break Other
White Space
XID Continue
XID Start
Expands On NFC
Expands On NFD
Expands On NFKC
Expands On NFKD
Bidi Paired Bracket Glyph for U+1FBF Greek Psili
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+1FBF Greek Psili
Script Extension
Vertical Orientation R