Modern Greek tonos and dialytika
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Details for U+03AC
GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA WITH TONOS
Exact sequence: ά
U+03AC
- Properties
Ll; CCC 0- HTML
ά- Word Alt+X
03AC- Normalization
NFC: U+03AC; NFD: U+03B1 U+0301; NFKC: U+03AC; NFKD: U+03B1 U+0301
Details for U+0390
GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA WITH DIALYTIKA AND TONOS
Exact sequence: ΐ
U+0390
- Properties
Ll; CCC 0- HTML
ΐ- Word Alt+X
0390- Normalization
NFC: U+0390; NFD: U+03B9 U+0308 U+0301; NFKC: U+0390; NFKD: U+03B9 U+0308 U+0301
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Modern Greek monotonic spelling uses tonos and dialytika. Tonos corresponds to the acute mark in Unicode, while dialytika corresponds to diaeresis. They belong on Greek letters, not on visually similar Latin substitutes. [3], [9]
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Details for U+03B1 U+0301
GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA + COMBINING ACUTE ACCENT
Exact sequence: ά
U+03B1 U+0301
Details for U+03B9 U+0308 U+0301
GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA + COMBINING DIAERESIS + COMBINING ACUTE ACCENT
Exact sequence: ΐ
U+03B9 U+0308 U+0301
Details for U+03B0
GREEK SMALL LETTER UPSILON WITH DIALYTIKA AND TONOS
Exact sequence: ΰ
U+03B0
Spelling and status
The combined lowercase forms ΐ and ΰ contain both dialytika and tonos. Historical polytonic Greek also uses breathings and other marks, but those are a different scope from this Modern Greek collection. The table supplies encoded capital forms without claiming that every all-capital word keeps every accent. [3], [9]
Distinctions to preserve
Greek Α and Latin A are separate letters despite similar glyphs. Unicode advises representing the dialytika-plus-tonos combination with U+0308 followed by U+0301 rather than the legacy U+0344 character. Exact copying preserves the chosen sequence; normalization can make canonically equivalent spellings comparable. [3], [9], [1], [2]
Typing and text forms
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Searchable character table
The collection contains the distinctive letters and marked forms discussed here, with both cases where applicable. It is a focused copying reference, not the complete alphabet. [3], [9], [9], [1]
20 records
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GREEK SMALL LETTER EPSILON WITH TONOSDetails
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GREEK SMALL LETTER ETA WITH TONOSDetails
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GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA WITH TONOSDetails
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GREEK SMALL LETTER OMICRON WITH TONOSDetails
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GREEK SMALL LETTER UPSILON WITH TONOSDetails
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GREEK SMALL LETTER OMEGA WITH TONOSDetails
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GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA WITH DIALYTIKADetails
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GREEK SMALL LETTER UPSILON WITH DIALYTIKADetails
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GREEK SMALL LETTER UPSILON WITH DIALYTIKA AND TONOSDetails
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GREEK CAPITAL LETTER ALPHA WITH TONOSDetails
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GREEK CAPITAL LETTER EPSILON WITH TONOSDetails
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GREEK CAPITAL LETTER ETA WITH TONOSDetails
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GREEK CAPITAL LETTER IOTA WITH TONOSDetails
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GREEK CAPITAL LETTER OMICRON WITH TONOSDetails
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GREEK CAPITAL LETTER UPSILON WITH TONOSDetails
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GREEK CAPITAL LETTER OMEGA WITH TONOSDetails
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GREEK CAPITAL LETTER IOTA WITH DIALYTIKADetails
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GREEK CAPITAL LETTER UPSILON WITH DIALYTIKADetails
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Sources and method
Usage statements link to the authority that supports their scope. Character names, categories, combining classes and normalization results come from the pinned Unicode data. A canonical decomposition does not establish language membership or spelling frequency.
Source access date: 2026-09-14.
- [3] Unicode 17: Latin, Greek and combining marks. Sections 7.1, 7.2, 7.8 and 7.9: encoded distinctions, script conventions and glyph variation, not a complete orthography.
- [9] CLDR 48.2 locale exemplars. Supplementary inventory checks against direct main and auxiliary exemplar sets. Exemplars do not establish full spelling or pronunciation rules.
- [1] Unicode Character Database 17.0.0.
- [2] Unicode normalization, UAX #15.
- [10] Microsoft: Unicode character entry in Word.
- [11] Apple: enter characters with accent marks.
- [12] Google: use Gboard.
- [13] Unicode: fonts and keyboards FAQ.
- [14] HTML numeric character references.
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Sources, versions and limits
- Encoded properties
- Properties use Unicode 17.0.0. Normalization follows UAX #15; grapheme boundaries follow UAX #29. Script associations describe encoded properties, not language use.
- Language evidence
- CLDR 48.2and the IANA registry dated 2026-08-08. Main and auxiliary exemplars are distinct. CLDR exemplars are not complete orthographies.
- Review and limitations
- The dataset is derived from the sources above. Editorial guides cite additional scoped authorities. No native or specialist orthography approval is implied. Release scope date: 14 September 2026. Historic or specialist usage needs separate evidence. Registry-only records have unknown orthography in this release.
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