Greek Extended

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Greek Extended
RangeU+1F00..U+1FFF
(256 code points)
Plane
polytonic Greek
Assigned233 code points
Unused23 reserved code points
Unicode version history
1.1 (1993)233 (+233)
Unicode documentation
Code chart ∣ Web page
Note: [1][2]

Greek Extended is a

Unicode Standard. As an alternative to Greek Extended, combining characters
can be used to represent the tones and breath marks of polytonic Greek.

In this block, the letters with oxia (

Unicode normalizations
. Decomposition of U+1F71 GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA WITH OXIA, for example, yields U+03B1 α GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA followed by a U+0301 ◌́ COMBINING ACUTE ACCENT, while composition yields the same letter with tonos, U+03AC ά GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA WITH TONOS, from the Greek and Coptic block.

Greek Extended[1][2]
Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF)
  0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F
U+1F0x
U+1F1x
U+1F2x
U+1F3x
Ἷ
U+1F4x
U+1F5x
U+1F6x
U+1F7x
U+1F8x
U+1F9x
U+1FAx
U+1FBx
᾿
U+1FCx
U+1FDx
U+1FEx
U+1FFx
Notes
1.^ As of Unicode version 15.1
2.^ Grey areas indicate non-assigned code points

History

The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Greek Extended block:

Version Final code points[a] Count UTC ID L2 ID WG2 ID Document
1.1 U+1F00..1F15, 1F18..1F1D, 1F20..1F45, 1F48..1F4D, 1F50..1F57, 1F59, 1F5B, 1F5D, 1F5F..1F7D, 1F80..1FB4, 1FB6..1FC4, 1FC6..1FD3, 1FD6..1FDB, 1FDD..1FEF, 1FF2..1FF4, 1FF6..1FFE 233 (to be determined)
X3L2/95-090 N1253 (doc, txt) Umamaheswaran, V. S.; Ksar, Mike (1995-09-09), "4.2", Unconfirmed Minutes of WG 2 Meeting # 28 in Helsinki, Finland; 1995-06-26--27
UTC/1999-017 Davis, Mark (1999-06-02), Data cross-checks (for Agenda)
L2/99-176R Moore, Lisa (1999-11-04), "Data Cross-Checks", Minutes from the joint UTC/L2 meeting in Seattle, June 8-10, 1999
  1. ^ Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names

References

  1. ^ "Unicode character database". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
  2. ^ "Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2023-07-26.