U+1F82 "ᾂ" Greek Small Letter Alpha with Psili and Varia and Ypogegrammeni Unicode Character
U+1F82 "ᾂ" Greek Small Letter Alpha with Psili and Varia and Ypogegrammeni is a composite glyph used in the polytonic orthography of Ancient Greek, representing the vowel alpha combined with a smooth breathing mark (psili), a grave accent (varia), and an iota subscript (ypogegrammeni) that indicates a long diphthong where the iota is not pronounced but written beneath. This character appears in texts that require precise diacritical notation, such as classical editions or liturgical works, and it serves to denote grammatical inflection or poetic meter by specifying the vowel's tone, breath, and historical length. Its encoding in Unicode as a single precomposed form ensures compatibility with legacy systems and simplifies rendering for scholarly publications, despite modern Greek typically discarding these diacritics.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F82 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Greek Small Letter Alpha with Psili and Varia and Ypogegrammeni |
| Block | Greek Extended |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ἂ" U+1F02 Greek Small Letter Alpha with Psili and Varia "ͅ" U+0345 Combining Greek Ypogegrammeni |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᾂ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᾂ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xBE 0x82 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1F82 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001F82 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1f82 |