U+1F84 "ᾄ" Greek Small Letter Alpha with Psili and Oxia and Ypogegrammeni Unicode Character
U+1F84 "ᾄ" Greek Small Letter Alpha with Psili and Oxia and Ypogegrammeni is a precomposed form used in classical and polytonic Greek, combining the alpha vowel with three distinct diacritical marks: a smooth breathing mark (psili, indicating no initial /h/ sound), an acute accent (oxia, marking a high-pitched or stressed syllable), and an iota subscript (ypogegrammeni, a small iota written beneath the letter to represent a long vowel sound that was once followed by a short iota in Ancient Greek). This specific character is part of the Greek Extended Unicode block and is primarily employed in scholarly texts, liturgical writings, and editions of ancient Greek literature to accurately represent the orthography and pronunciation of words such as "ᾄδω" (I sing), where the combination of these diacritics conveys essential grammatical and phonological information that was characteristic of the Greek language before the medieval simplification of its accentuation system.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F84 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Greek Small Letter Alpha with Psili and Oxia and Ypogegrammeni |
| Block | Greek Extended |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ἄ" U+1F04 Greek Small Letter Alpha with Psili and Oxia "ͅ" U+0345 Combining Greek Ypogegrammeni |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᾄ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᾄ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xBE 0x84 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1F84 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001F84 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1f84 |