Greek Extended

Greek Extended is a Unicode block containing the accented vowels necessary for writing polytonic Greek. The regular, unaccented Greek characters as well as the characters with tonos and diaeresis can be found in the Greek and Coptic block. Greek Extended was encoded in version 1.1 of the Unicode Standard. As an alternative to Greek Extended, combining characters can be used to represent the tones and breath marks of polytonic Greek.

Greek Extended
RangeU+1F00..U+1FFF
(256 code points)
PlaneBMP
ScriptsGreek
Major alphabetspolytonic 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]

In this block, the letters with oxia (acute accent) and no other accent are not used in any of the 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)
 0123456789ABCDEF
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:

VersionFinal code points[lower-alpha 1]CountUTC IDL2 IDWG2 IDDocument
1.1U+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..1FFE233(to be determined)
X3L2/95-090N1253 (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/1999-017Davis, Mark (1999-06-02), Data cross-checks (for Agenda)
L2/99-176RMoore, 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.
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