U+1F0F "Ἇ" Greek Capital Letter Alpha with Dasia and Perispomeni Unicode Character
U+1F0F "Ἇ" Greek Capital Letter Alpha with Dasia and Perispomeni is a precomposed glyph used in polytonic Greek orthography to represent an uppercase alpha bearing a rough breathing mark (dasia) and a circumflex accent (perispomeni) over the vowel. This character appears in ancient and liturgical Greek texts to indicate both aspiration at the start of a word and a rising-falling pitch contour on the long alpha. As a member of the Greek Extended block, it is typically employed in historical, philological, and ecclesiastical writings rather than in modern Greek, which uses monotonic accentuation. The dasia signals that the vowel is pronounced with an initial “h” sound, while the perispomeni denotes a circumflex tone in classical pronunciation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F0F |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Greek Capital Letter Alpha with Dasia and Perispomeni |
| 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+0342 Combining Greek Perispomeni |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ἇ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ἇ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xBC 0x8F |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1F0F |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001F0F |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1f0f |