U+1F03 "ἃ" Greek Small Letter Alpha with Dasia and Varia Unicode Character
U+1F03 "ἃ" Greek Small Letter Alpha with Dasia and Varia is a polytonic Greek letter used in ancient and ecclesiastical Greek writing, combining the base alpha with two diacritical marks: the dasia, or rough breathing mark, which indicates an initial "h" sound, and the varia, or grave accent, which denotes a low or falling pitch in pronunciation. This character represents a specific phonetic and tonal value in the complex system of ancient Greek prosody, where breathing and accent marks were essential for proper reading and recitation, though it is rarely used in modern Greek. In Unicode, it belongs to the Greek Extended block, preserving the orthographic precision of classical texts and enabling accurate digital representation of historical manuscripts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F03 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Greek Small Letter Alpha with Dasia and Varia |
| Block | Greek Extended |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ἁ" U+1F01 Greek Small Letter Alpha with Dasia "̀" U+0300 Combining Grave Accent |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ἃ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ἃ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xBC 0x83 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1F03 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001F03 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1f03 |
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 | "Ἃ" U+1F0B Greek Capital Letter Alpha with Dasia and Varia |
| Simple Titlecase Code Point | "Ἃ" U+1F0B Greek Capital Letter Alpha with Dasia and Varia |
| Uppercase Code Point | "Ἃ" U+1F0B Greek Capital Letter Alpha with Dasia and Varia |
| Titlecase Code Point | "Ἃ" U+1F0B Greek Capital Letter Alpha with Dasia and Varia |
| 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 |