U+1F71 "ά" Greek Small Letter Alpha with Oxia Unicode Character

U+1F71 "ά" Greek Small Letter Alpha with Oxia is a precomposed character representing the Greek letter alpha ( α) combined with an acute accent mark known as an oxia, which indicates a high pitch or stress in Ancient Greek polytonic orthography. This character is distinct from the modern monotonic Greek system, where the same sound is typically represented by the letter alpha with a simple tonos (accent), and it is used primarily in scholarly, liturgical, or historical texts that preserve the traditional Greek accentuation.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1F71
Version Added	1.1
Name	Greek Small Letter Alpha with Oxia
Block	Greek Extended
General Category	Lowercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right
Decomposition Type	Canonical
Decomposition Mapping	"ά" U+03AC Greek Small Letter Alpha with Tonos

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ά
HTML Hex Encoding	ά
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE1 0xBD 0xB1
UTF-16 Encoding	0x1F71
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00001F71
C/C++/Java Escape	\u1f71

Unicode Properties

Full Composition Exclusion	Yes
Numeric Type	None
Numeric Value	NaN
Line Break	Alphabetic
Lowercase	Yes
Simple Uppercase Code Point	"Ά" U+1FBB Greek Capital Letter Alpha with Oxia
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"Ά" U+1FBB Greek Capital Letter Alpha with Oxia
Uppercase Code Point	"Ά" U+1FBB Greek Capital Letter Alpha with Oxia
Titlecase Code Point	"Ά" U+1FBB Greek Capital Letter Alpha with Oxia
Cased	Yes
Changes When Casemapped	Yes
Changes When NFKC Casefolded	Yes
Changes When Titlecased	Yes
Changes When Uppercased	Yes
NFKC Casefold	"ά" U+03AC Greek Small Letter Alpha with Tonos
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ά" U+03AC Greek Small Letter Alpha with Tonos
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