U+1F88 "ᾈ" Greek Capital Letter Alpha with Psili and Prosgegrammeni Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1F88 "ᾈ" Greek Capital Letter Alpha with Psili and Prosgegrammeni is a precomposed character from the Greek Extended block, used in polytonic Greek orthography to represent the vowel alpha with a smooth breathing mark, known as psili, and an attached iota subscript, referred to as prosgegrammeni in its capital form. This character typically appears at the beginning of a word in ancient or liturgical Greek texts, indicating that the alpha is pronounced without an aspiration while also requiring a following long iota sound, though the iota itself is not written as a full letter but as a small line beneath the capital alpha.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F88 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Greek Capital Letter Alpha with Psili and Prosgegrammeni |
| Block | Greek Extended |
| General Category | Titlecase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "Ἀ" U+1F08 Greek Capital Letter Alpha with Psili "ͅ" U+0345 Combining Greek Ypogegrammeni |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᾈ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᾈ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xBE 0x88 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1F88 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001F88 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1f88 |