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Glyph for U+0388
Source: Noto Sans

U+0388 Greek Capital Letter Epsilon with Tonos

U+0388 was added in Unicode version 1.1 in 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. Its lowercase variant is Glyph for U+03AD Greek Small Letter Epsilon with Tonos.

The glyph is a canonical composition of the glyphs Glyph for U+0395 Greek Capital Letter Epsilon, Glyph for U+0301 Combining Acute Accent. It has no designated width in East Asian texts. In bidirectional text it is written from left to right. When changing direction it is not mirrored. The word that U+0388 forms with similar adjacent characters prevents a line break inside it.

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 grafī́s), 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 and includes:

  • acute accent (´)
  • circumflex accent (ˆ)
  • grave accent (`); these 3 accents indicate different kinds of pitch accent
  • rough breathing () indicates the presence of the /h/ sound before a letter
  • 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Since in Modern Greek the pitch accent has been replaced by a dynamic accent (stress), and /h/ was lost, most polytonic diacritics have no phonetic significance, and merely reveal the underlying Ancient Greek etymology.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:

  • single accent or tonos (΄) that indicates stress, and
  • diaeresis (¨), which usually indicates a hiatus but occasionally indicates a diphthong: compare modern Greek παϊδάκια (/paiˈðaca/, "lamb chops"), with a diphthong, and παιδάκια (/peˈðaca/, "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
904
UTF-8 CE 88
UTF-16 03 88
UTF-32 00 00 03 88
URL-Quoted %CE%88
HTML hex reference Έ
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake Έ
Encoding: CP737 (hex bytes) EB
Encoding: CP869 (hex bytes) 8D
Encoding: CP875 (hex bytes) 72
Encoding: CP1253 (hex bytes) B8
Encoding: EUC_JP (hex bytes) 8F A6 E2
Encoding: EUC_JIS_2004 (hex bytes) 8F A6 E2
Encoding: EUC_JISX0213 (hex bytes) 8F A6 E2
Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes) 81 30 CA 32
Encoding: ISO2022_JP_1 (hex bytes) 1B 24 28 44 26 62 1B 28 42
Encoding: ISO2022_JP_2 (hex bytes) 1B 24 28 44 26 62 1B 28 42
Encoding: ISO2022_JP_EXT (hex bytes) 1B 24 28 44 26 62 1B 28 42
Encoding: ISO8859_7 (hex bytes) B8
Encoding: MAC_GREEK (hex bytes) CE
Encoding: CP875 (hex bytes) 72
LATEX \'{E}
Adobe Glyph List Epsilontonos
digraph E%

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Complete Record

Property Value
Age (age) 1.1 (1993)
Unicode Name (na) GREEK CAPITAL LETTER EPSILON WITH TONOS
Unicode 1 Name (na1) GREEK CAPITAL LETTER EPSILON TONOS
Block (blk) Greek and Coptic
General Category (gc) Uppercase Letter
Script (sc) Greek
Bidirectional Category (bc) Left To Right
Combining Class (ccc) Not Reordered
Decomposition Type (dt) canonical
Decomposition Mapping (dm) Glyph for U+0395 Greek Capital Letter Epsilon Glyph for U+0301 Combining Acute Accent
Lowercase (Lower)
Simple Lowercase Mapping (slc) Glyph for U+03AD Greek Small Letter Epsilon with Tonos
Lowercase Mapping (lc) Glyph for U+03AD Greek Small Letter Epsilon with Tonos
Uppercase (Upper)
Simple Uppercase Mapping (suc) Glyph for U+0388 Greek Capital Letter Epsilon with Tonos
Uppercase Mapping (uc) Glyph for U+0388 Greek Capital Letter Epsilon with Tonos
Simple Titlecase Mapping (stc) Glyph for U+0388 Greek Capital Letter Epsilon with Tonos
Titlecase Mapping (tc) Glyph for U+0388 Greek Capital Letter Epsilon with Tonos
Case Folding (cf) Glyph for U+03AD Greek Small Letter Epsilon with Tonos
ASCII Hex Digit (AHex)
Alphabetic (Alpha)
Bidi Control (Bidi_C)
Bidi Mirrored (Bidi_M)
Composition Exclusion (CE)
Case Ignorable (CI)
Changes When Casefolded (CWCF)
Changes When Casemapped (CWCM)
Changes When NFKC Casefolded (CWKCF)
Changes When Lowercased (CWL)
Changes When Titlecased (CWT)
Changes When Uppercased (CWU)
Cased (Cased)
Full Composition Exclusion (Comp_Ex)
Default Ignorable Code Point (DI)
Dash (Dash)
Deprecated (Dep)
Diacritic (Dia)
Emoji Modifier Base (EBase)
Emoji Component (EComp)
Emoji Modifier (EMod)
Emoji Presentation (EPres)
Emoji (Emoji)
Extender (Ext)
Extended Pictographic (ExtPict)
FC NFKC Closure (FC_NFKC) Glyph for U+0388 Greek Capital Letter Epsilon with Tonos
Grapheme Cluster Break (GCB) Any
Grapheme Base (Gr_Base)
Grapheme Extend (Gr_Ext)
Grapheme Link (Gr_Link)
Hex Digit (Hex)
Hyphen (Hyphen)
ID Continue (IDC)
ID Start (IDS)
IDS Binary Operator (IDSB)
IDS Trinary Operator and (IDST)
IDSU (IDSU) 0
ID_Compat_Math_Continue (ID_Compat_Math_Continue) 0
ID_Compat_Math_Start (ID_Compat_Math_Start) 0
Ideographic (Ideo)
InCB (InCB) None
Indic Mantra Category (InMC)
Indic Positional Category (InPC) NA
Indic Syllabic Category (InSC) Other
Jamo Short Name (JSN)
Join Control (Join_C)
Logical Order Exception (LOE)
Modifier Combining Mark (MCM)
Math (Math)
Noncharacter Code Point (NChar)
NFC Quick Check (NFC_QC) Yes
NFD Quick Check (NFD_QC) No
NFKC Casefold (NFKC_CF) Glyph for U+03AD Greek Small Letter Epsilon with Tonos
NFKC Quick Check (NFKC_QC) Yes
NFKC_SCF (NFKC_SCF) Glyph for U+03AD Greek Small Letter Epsilon with Tonos
NFKD Quick Check (NFKD_QC) No
Other Alphabetic (OAlpha)
Other Default Ignorable Code Point (ODI)
Other Grapheme Extend (OGr_Ext)
Other ID Continue (OIDC)
Other ID Start (OIDS)
Other Lowercase (OLower)
Other Math (OMath)
Other Uppercase (OUpper)
Prepended Concatenation Mark (PCM)
Pattern Syntax (Pat_Syn)
Pattern White Space (Pat_WS)
Quotation Mark (QMark)
Regional Indicator (RI)
Radical (Radical)
Sentence Break (SB) Upper
Soft Dotted (SD)
Sentence Terminal (STerm)
Terminal Punctuation (Term)
Unified Ideograph (UIdeo)
Variation Selector (VS)
Word Break (WB) Alphabetic Letter
White Space (WSpace)
XID Continue (XIDC)
XID Start (XIDS)
Expands On NFC (XO_NFC)
Expands On NFD (XO_NFD)
Expands On NFKC (XO_NFKC)
Expands On NFKD (XO_NFKD)
Bidi Paired Bracket (bpb) Glyph for U+0388 Greek Capital Letter Epsilon with Tonos
Bidi Paired Bracket Type (bpt) None
East Asian Width (ea) neutral
Hangul Syllable Type (hst) Not Applicable
ISO 10646 Comment (isc)
Joining Group (jg) No_Joining_Group
Joining Type (jt) Non Joining
Line Break (lb) Alphabetic
Numeric Type (nt) none
Numeric Value (nv) not a number
Simple Case Folding (scf) Glyph for U+03AD Greek Small Letter Epsilon with Tonos
Script Extension (scx)
Vertical Orientation (vo) R