U+0386 "Ά" Greek Capital Letter Alpha with Tonos Unicode Character
U+0386 "Ά" Greek Capital Letter Alpha with Tonos is a precomposed version of the Greek capital letter Alpha that incorporates a combining acute accent, known as the tonos, directly above the letter. It represents the first letter of the Greek alphabet, alpha, with a stress mark indicating high pitch or emphasis in the Greek language, particularly in contexts such as the word "άλφα" or in words where the initial syllable bears tonal stress. This character is part of the Greek and Coptic block of Unicode and is distinct from the sequence of a basic capital Alpha followed by a separate combining tonos accent, offering a single code point that is essential for accurate representation of Greek text in digital systems, especially in formal writing, dictionaries, and linguistic transcriptions.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0386 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Greek Capital Letter Alpha with Tonos |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Greek Capital Letter Alpha Tonos |
| Block | Greek and Coptic |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "Α" U+0391 Greek Capital Letter Alpha "́" U+0301 Combining Acute Accent |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ά |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ά |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xCE 0x86 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0386 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000386 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0386 |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Alphabetic |
| Uppercase | Yes |
| Simple Lowercase Code Point | "ά" U+03AC Greek Small Letter Alpha with Tonos |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ά" U+03AC Greek Small Letter Alpha with Tonos |
| Simple Case Folding | "ά" U+03AC Greek Small Letter Alpha with Tonos |
| Case Folding | "ά" U+03AC Greek Small Letter Alpha with Tonos |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ά" U+03AC Greek Small Letter Alpha with Tonos |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ά" U+03AC Greek Small Letter Alpha with Tonos |
| Script | Greek |
| Script Extensions | Greek |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| ID Start | Yes |
| XID Start | Yes |
| ID Continue | Yes |
| XID Continue | Yes |
| Alphabetic | Yes |
| Vertical Orientation | Rotated |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Alphabetic letter |
| Sentence Break | Upper |