U+1F06 "ἆ" Greek Small Letter Alpha with Psili and Perispomeni Unicode Character
U+1F06 "ἆ" Greek Small Letter Alpha with Psili and Perispomeni is a polytonic Greek letter used in the ancient and medieval Greek writing system to represent the vowel alpha combined with both a smooth breathing mark, known as psili, and a circumflex accent, known as perispomeni. This specific character appears in words where the syllable undergoes contraction or certain vowel lengthening, and its phonetic realization involves a long vowel sound with a rising and falling tonal inflection, as well as an initial unvoiced or gentle aspiration. In modern scholarly contexts, it is primarily encountered in critical editions of classical texts, liturgical works, and linguistic studies that require precise diacritical representation of historical Greek pronunciation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F06 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Greek Small Letter Alpha with Psili and Perispomeni |
| Block | Greek Extended |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ἀ" U+1F00 Greek Small Letter Alpha with Psili "͂" U+0342 Combining Greek Perispomeni |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ἆ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ἆ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xBC 0x86 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1F06 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001F06 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1f06 |
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 | "Ἆ" U+1F0E Greek Capital Letter Alpha with Psili and Perispomeni |
| Simple Titlecase Code Point | "Ἆ" U+1F0E Greek Capital Letter Alpha with Psili and Perispomeni |
| Uppercase Code Point | "Ἆ" U+1F0E Greek Capital Letter Alpha with Psili and Perispomeni |
| Titlecase Code Point | "Ἆ" U+1F0E Greek Capital Letter Alpha with Psili and Perispomeni |
| 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 |