U+1F87 "ᾇ" Greek Small Letter Alpha with Dasia and Perispomeni and Ypogegrammeni Unicode Character
U+1F87 "ᾇ" Greek Small Letter Alpha with Dasia and Perispomeni and Ypogegrammeni is a complex polytonic Greek character used in ancient and liturgical Greek text, representing a long alpha vowel that carries a rough breathing mark (dasia), a circumflex accent (perispomeni), and an iota subscript (ypogegrammeni) indicating a long final iota sound. This character does not have a standard Latin transliteration and is not used in modern Greek, but it appears in scholarly editions of classical works or religious manuscripts where precise pronunciation and accentuation are preserved. It belongs to the Greek Extended block of the Unicode standard, which was designed to encode historic Greek orthography with multiple diacritical marks stacked above or below the base letter.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F87 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Greek Small Letter Alpha with Dasia and Perispomeni and Ypogegrammeni |
| Block | Greek Extended |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ἇ" U+1F07 Greek Small Letter Alpha with Dasia and Perispomeni "ͅ" U+0345 Combining Greek Ypogegrammeni |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᾇ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᾇ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xBE 0x87 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1F87 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001F87 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1f87 |