U+1F0D "Ἅ" Greek Capital Letter Alpha with Dasia and Oxia Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
Ἅ
U+1F0D "Ἅ" Greek Capital Letter Alpha with Dasia and Oxia is a precomposed glyph used in polytonic Greek orthography to represent the letter alpha with two diacritical marks: the dasia, which indicates a rough breathing (an initial /h/ sound), and the oxia, which marks an acute accent. This character appears primarily in ancient or liturgical Greek texts, such as in editions of classical literature or religious manuscripts, where it combines the vowel and both diacritics into a single code point for precise textual representation. Its existence in Unicode facilitates accurate digital rendering of historically significant Greek writings that employ this complex accentuation system.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F0D |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Greek Capital Letter Alpha with Dasia and Oxia |
| 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+0301 Combining Acute Accent |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ἅ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ἅ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xBC 0x8D |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1F0D |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001F0D |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1f0d |
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 | "ἅ" U+1F05 Greek Small Letter Alpha with Dasia and Oxia |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ἅ" U+1F05 Greek Small Letter Alpha with Dasia and Oxia |
| Simple Case Folding | "ἅ" U+1F05 Greek Small Letter Alpha with Dasia and Oxia |
| Case Folding | "ἅ" U+1F05 Greek Small Letter Alpha with Dasia and Oxia |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ἅ" U+1F05 Greek Small Letter Alpha with Dasia and Oxia |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ἅ" U+1F05 Greek Small Letter Alpha with Dasia 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 |