Unicode Character "ά" U+03AC Greek Small Letter Alpha with Tonos
Unicode Version 15.1
ά
Summary
The unicode character "ά" at code point U+03AC is Greek Small Letter Alpha with Tonos. It is a character in the Greek and Coptic block and is part of the Greek script. The character is a lowercase letter. The UTF-8 encoding of "ά" is 0xCE 0xAC and the UTF-16 encoding is 0x03AC.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+03AC |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Greek Small Letter Alpha with Tonos |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Greek Small Letter Alpha Tonos |
| Block | Greek and Coptic |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "α" U+03B1 Greek Small Letter Alpha "́" U+0301 Combining Acute Accent |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ά |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ά |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xCE 0xAC |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x03AC |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000003AC |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u03ac |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Yes |
| Expands On NFD | Yes |
| Expands On NKFD | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Alphabetic |
| Lowercase | Yes |
| Simple Uppercase Code Point | "Ά" U+0386 Greek Capital Letter Alpha with Tonos |
| Simple Titlecase Code Point | "Ά" U+0386 Greek Capital Letter Alpha with Tonos |
| Uppercase Code Point | "Ά" U+0386 Greek Capital Letter Alpha with Tonos |
| Titlecase Code Point | "Ά" U+0386 Greek Capital Letter Alpha with Tonos |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Titlecased | Yes |
| Changes When Uppercased | Yes |
| 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 | Lower |