Greek Extended | |
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Range | U+1F00..U+1FFF (256 code points) |
Plane | BMP |
Scripts | Greek |
Major alphabets | polytonic Greek |
Assigned | 233 code points |
Unused | 23 reserved code points |
Unicode version history | |
1.1 | 233 (+233) |
Note: |
Greek Extended is a Unicode block containing the accented vowels necessary for writing polytonic Greek. The regular, unaccented Greek characters can be found in the Greek and Coptic (Unicode 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.