U+1F0E "Ἆ" Greek Capital Letter Alpha with Psili and Perispomeni Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
Ἆ
U+1F0E "Ἆ" Greek Capital Letter Alpha with Psili and Perispomeni is a precomposed character used in polytonic Greek orthography, representing the capital alpha combined with a smooth breathing mark (psili) and a circumflex accent (perispomeni) over it, typically employed in ancient and liturgical Greek texts to denote specific pronunciation and accentuation patterns, such as in the word “Ἆ” itself or in words like “ἆρα” to indicate a rising and falling pitch on the initial vowel.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F0E |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Greek Capital Letter Alpha with Psili and Perispomeni |
| 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+0342 Combining Greek Perispomeni |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ἆ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ἆ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xBC 0x8E |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1F0E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001F0E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1f0e |