U+1F85 "ᾅ" Greek Small Letter Alpha with Dasia and Oxia and Ypogegrammeni Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ᾅ
U+1F85 "ᾅ" Greek Small Letter Alpha with Dasia and Oxia and Ypogegrammeni is a precomposed character from the Greek Extended block, used in ancient Greek polytonic orthography to represent the vowel alpha with a rough breathing mark (dasia), an acute accent (oxia), and an iota subscript (ypogegrammeni) that indicates a long diphthong often written as ᾳ. This character is formed by combining the base alpha with three diacritical marks into a single codepoint for ease of textual representation in digital environments, and it appears in critical editions of classical texts where precise accentuation and breathing are essential for correct pronunciation and grammatical interpretation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F85 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Greek Small Letter Alpha with Dasia 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 | "ἅ" U+1F05 Greek Small Letter Alpha with Dasia and Oxia "ͅ" U+0345 Combining Greek Ypogegrammeni |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᾅ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᾅ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xBE 0x85 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1F85 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001F85 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1f85 |