U+1F70 "ὰ" Greek Small Letter Alpha with Varia Unicode Character

U+1F70 "ὰ" Greek Small Letter Alpha with Varia is a precomposed character used in polytonic Greek orthography, representing the lowercase alpha (α) combined with a varia, or grave accent, that historically indicated a falling pitch in ancient Greek pronunciation. This character is distinct from a simple alpha with a combining grave accent, as it is encoded as a single unit for compatibility with legacy Greek text and is primarily utilized in scholarly, liturgical, or linguistic contexts to accurately represent ancient Greek prosody.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1F70
Version Added	1.1
Name	Greek Small Letter Alpha with Varia
Block	Greek Extended
General Category	Lowercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right
Decomposition Type	Canonical
Decomposition Mapping	"α" U+03B1 Greek Small Letter Alpha "̀" U+0300 Combining Grave Accent

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ὰ
HTML Hex Encoding	ὰ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE1 0xBD 0xB0
UTF-16 Encoding	0x1F70
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00001F70
C/C++/Java Escape	\u1f70

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check	Yes
NFKC Quick Check	Yes
Numeric Type	None
Numeric Value	NaN
Line Break	Alphabetic
Lowercase	Yes
Simple Uppercase Code Point	"Ὰ" U+1FBA Greek Capital Letter Alpha with Varia
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"Ὰ" U+1FBA Greek Capital Letter Alpha with Varia
Uppercase Code Point	"Ὰ" U+1FBA Greek Capital Letter Alpha with Varia
Titlecase Code Point	"Ὰ" U+1FBA Greek Capital Letter Alpha with Varia
Cased	Yes
Changes When Casemapped	Yes
Changes When Titlecased	Yes
Changes When Uppercased	Yes
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	Lower