U+1F0C "Ἄ" Greek Capital Letter Alpha with Psili and Oxia Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
Ἄ
U+1F0C "Ἄ" Greek Capital Letter Alpha with Psili and Oxia is a precomposed polytonic Greek letter that combines a smooth breathing mark (psili) and an acute accent (oxia) over the capital letter Alpha. It is primarily used in historical or classical Greek texts where tonal accents and breathings were standard, representing the rough breathing sound absent with psili while the oxia indicates a high pitch on the first syllable. This character is part of the Greek and Coptic block, often employed in scholarly editions of ancient works for precise phonetic and grammatical notation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F0C |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Greek Capital Letter Alpha with Psili and Oxia |
| 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+0301 Combining Acute Accent |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ἄ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ἄ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xBC 0x8C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1F0C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001F0C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1f0c |
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 | "ἄ" U+1F04 Greek Small Letter Alpha with Psili and Oxia |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ἄ" U+1F04 Greek Small Letter Alpha with Psili and Oxia |
| Simple Case Folding | "ἄ" U+1F04 Greek Small Letter Alpha with Psili and Oxia |
| Case Folding | "ἄ" U+1F04 Greek Small Letter Alpha with Psili and Oxia |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ἄ" U+1F04 Greek Small Letter Alpha with Psili and Oxia |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ἄ" U+1F04 Greek Small Letter Alpha with Psili and Oxia |
| 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 |