U+1F0B "Ἃ" Greek Capital Letter Alpha with Dasia and Varia Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
Ἃ
U+1F0B "Ἃ" Greek Capital Letter Alpha with Dasia and Varia is a polytonic Greek letter representing the vowel alpha combined with a rough breathing mark, known as dasia, and a grave accent, known as varia. This character is used in ancient and liturgical Greek texts to indicate an initial aspirated 'h' sound followed by a specific low or falling pitch on the alpha, often occurring at the beginning of a word in a sentence or before a punctuation mark. It is part of the Unicode Greek and Coptic block and is essential for accurately rendering classical Greek orthography, particularly in scholarly editions, religious manuscripts, and linguistic studies where tonal and breathing distinctions are preserved.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F0B |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Greek Capital Letter Alpha with Dasia and Varia |
| Block | Greek Extended |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "Ἁ" U+1F09 Greek Capital Letter Alpha with Dasia "̀" U+0300 Combining Grave Accent |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ἃ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ἃ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xBC 0x8B |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1F0B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001F0B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1f0b |
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 | "ἃ" U+1F03 Greek Small Letter Alpha with Dasia and Varia |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ἃ" U+1F03 Greek Small Letter Alpha with Dasia and Varia |
| Simple Case Folding | "ἃ" U+1F03 Greek Small Letter Alpha with Dasia and Varia |
| Case Folding | "ἃ" U+1F03 Greek Small Letter Alpha with Dasia and Varia |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ἃ" U+1F03 Greek Small Letter Alpha with Dasia and Varia |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ἃ" U+1F03 Greek Small Letter Alpha with Dasia 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 |