Greek & technical
Greek letters and gothic-style text symbols
Greek letters (α β γ Ω) and related technical signs often appear in searches for gothic text symbols and scientific notation. Copy them for formulas, fraternity references, and darker aesthetic names — then paste into Docs or Discord.
Greek letters vs gothic style
True blackletter “gothic” fonts are not Unicode letters you can paste everywhere; this library gives Greek and technical glyphs plus links to fancy letters and crosses for a darker look. See also math.
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Accented and polytonic Greek: tonos, oxia and combining marks
The letters in this grid are unaccented. Accented Greek is in Unicode two ways, as precomposed letters and as combining marks.
Precomposed letters.
- The Greek and Coptic block (U+0370–U+03FF) has the letters with tonos, such as ά U+03AC GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA WITH TONOS.
- The Greek Extended block (U+1F00–U+1FFF) is headed "Precomposed polytonic Greek" in Unicode's NamesList. It has 233 characters as of Unicode 15.1, such as ἀ U+1F00 (alpha with psili), ᾳ U+1FB3 (alpha with ypogegrammeni) and ᾆ U+1F86 (alpha with psili, perispomeni and ypogegrammeni).
Tonos vs oxia duplicates. Greek Extended also has letters "with oxia" that look the same as the tonos letters:
| Tonos (Greek and Coptic) | Oxia (Greek Extended) |
|---|---|
| ά U+03AC | ά U+1F71 |
| έ U+03AD | έ U+1F73 |
| ΐ U+0390 | ΐ U+1FD3 |
Each oxia letter is canonically equivalent to its tonos letter: Unicode normalization (NFC) turns U+1F71 into U+03AC. NamesList also lists U+0301 COMBINING ACUTE ACCENT as "= Greek oxia, tonos", so it's one accent. Use the tonos form so your searches and comparisons match.
Combining marks. You can also type a base letter (such as α, ε, ι or ω) followed by one or more marks. NFC merges them into the precomposed letter when one exists (α + U+0301 → ά U+03AC).
| Mark | Code point | NamesList note |
|---|---|---|
| acute (oxia/tonos) | U+0301 | = Greek oxia, tonos |
| grave (varia) | U+0300 | = Greek varia |
| smooth breathing | U+0313 | = Greek psili |
| rough breathing | U+0314 | = Greek dasia |
| circumflex | U+0342 | COMBINING GREEK PERISPOMENI (Greek-specific form of circumflex) |
| iota subscript | U+0345 | = iota subscript |
| diaeresis | U+0308 | = Greek dialytika |
To type any of these in Word, enter the code (e.g. 1F00) and press Alt+X. On a Mac with Unicode Hex Input, hold Option and type the 4-digit code.