U+1F83 "ᾃ" Greek Small Letter Alpha with Dasia and Varia and Ypogegrammeni Unicode Character
U+1F83 "ᾃ" Greek Small Letter Alpha with Dasia and Varia and Ypogegrammeni is a precomposed character used in polytonic Greek orthography to represent the letter alpha combined with a rough breathing mark (dasia), a grave accent (varia), and an iota subscript (ypogegrammeni), typically appearing in ancient or liturgical texts. This glyph represents a specific vowel sound in a word, often at the beginning of a syllable, where the rough breathing indicates an initial /h/ sound, the grave accent denotes a lower or falling pitch in certain contexts, and the ypogegrammeni signals a long alpha with an implied iota that is not pronounced in Modern Greek but historically indicated a diphthong. As part of the Greek Extended block, U+1F83 is largely obsolete in standard modern usage but remains essential for accurate textual representation of classical or ecclesiastical writings.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F83 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Greek Small Letter Alpha with Dasia 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 | "ἃ" U+1F03 Greek Small Letter Alpha with Dasia and Varia "ͅ" U+0345 Combining Greek Ypogegrammeni |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᾃ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᾃ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xBE 0x83 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1F83 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001F83 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1f83 |