U+1F00 "ἀ" Greek Small Letter Alpha with Psili Unicode Character

U+1F00 "ἀ" Greek Small Letter Alpha with Psili is a precomposed character used in the polytonic orthography of the Greek language, where it represents the vowel alpha (α) combined with the "psili" diacritic, which denotes a smooth breathing mark. This mark indicates that the vowel is pronounced without an initial aspiration, a subtle phonetic distinction essential in Ancient Greek but rarely observed in modern pronunciation. Typically found in classical texts and scholarly editions, this character helps preserve historical linguistic accuracy and is encoded in Unicode to allow digital representation of such specialized Greek script.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1F00
Version Added	1.1
Name	Greek Small Letter Alpha with Psili
Block	Greek Extended
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+0313 Combining Comma Above

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ἀ
HTML Hex Encoding	ἀ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE1 0xBC 0x80
UTF-16 Encoding	0x1F00
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00001F00
C/C++/Java Escape	\u1f00

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check	Yes
NFKC Quick Check	Yes
Numeric Type	None
Numeric Value	NaN
Line Break	Alphabetic
Lowercase	Yes
Simple Uppercase Code Point	"Ἀ" U+1F08 Greek Capital Letter Alpha with Psili
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"Ἀ" U+1F08 Greek Capital Letter Alpha with Psili
Uppercase Code Point	"Ἀ" U+1F08 Greek Capital Letter Alpha with Psili
Titlecase Code Point	"Ἀ" U+1F08 Greek Capital Letter Alpha with Psili
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