U+1F07 "ἇ" Greek Small Letter Alpha with Dasia and Perispomeni Unicode Character

U+1F07 "ἇ" Greek Small Letter Alpha with Dasia and Perispomeni is a polytonic Greek letter representing the alpha vowel combined with two diacritical marks: the dasia, or rough breathing, which indicates an initial /h/ sound, and the perispomeni, a circumflex accent that denotes a rising and falling pitch in ancient Greek pronunciation. Historically, this character appears in ancient and liturgical Greek texts, such as in words like "ἇγνος" (hagnos, meaning pure), to guide proper phonetic articulation and tonal inflection. In modern digital typography, it is encoded for compatibility with scholarly editions, classical studies, and Greek Orthodox ecclesiastical writings, though it is rarely used in contemporary Greek language contexts.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1F07
Version Added	1.1
Name	Greek Small Letter Alpha with Dasia and Perispomeni
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+0342 Combining Greek Perispomeni

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ἇ
HTML Hex Encoding	ἇ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE1 0xBC 0x87
UTF-16 Encoding	0x1F07
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00001F07
C/C++/Java Escape	\u1f07

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	"Ἇ" U+1F0F Greek Capital Letter Alpha with Dasia and Perispomeni
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"Ἇ" U+1F0F Greek Capital Letter Alpha with Dasia and Perispomeni
Uppercase Code Point	"Ἇ" U+1F0F Greek Capital Letter Alpha with Dasia and Perispomeni
Titlecase Code Point	"Ἇ" U+1F0F Greek Capital Letter Alpha with Dasia 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