U+1F0A "Ἂ" Greek Capital Letter Alpha with Psili and Varia Unicode Character
U+1F0A "Ἂ" Greek Capital Letter Alpha with Psili and Varia is a precomposed character used in the polytonic Greek script, combining a capital alpha with two diacritical marks: a psili, or smooth breathing mark, placed above the letter, and a varia, or grave accent, indicating a specific tone. This character preserves the classical orthography of ancient Greek, where the psili denotes that the vowel is pronounced without an initial h sound, while the varia marks a falling pitch in words, often appearing in final syllables. It is part of the Greek Extended block in Unicode, facilitating accurate representation of historical Greek texts, such as those from the Hellenistic and Byzantine periods, in digital environments without requiring separate combining characters.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F0A |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Greek Capital Letter Alpha with Psili and Varia |
| Block | Greek Extended |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "Ἀ" U+1F08 Greek Capital Letter Alpha with Psili "̀" U+0300 Combining Grave Accent |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ἂ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ἂ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xBC 0x8A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1F0A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001F0A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1f0a |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Alphabetic |
| Uppercase | Yes |
| Simple Lowercase Code Point | "ἂ" U+1F02 Greek Small Letter Alpha with Psili and Varia |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ἂ" U+1F02 Greek Small Letter Alpha with Psili and Varia |
| Simple Case Folding | "ἂ" U+1F02 Greek Small Letter Alpha with Psili and Varia |
| Case Folding | "ἂ" U+1F02 Greek Small Letter Alpha with Psili and Varia |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ἂ" U+1F02 Greek Small Letter Alpha with Psili and Varia |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ἂ" U+1F02 Greek Small Letter Alpha with Psili and Varia |
| 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 | Upper |