U+1F8A "ᾊ" Greek Capital Letter Alpha with Psili and Varia and Prosgegrammeni Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ᾊ
U+1F8A "ᾊ" Greek Capital Letter Alpha with Psili and Varia and Prosgegrammeni is a precomposed representation of the uppercase Greek letter alpha, used in ancient polytonic orthography, which combines three diacritical marks: the psili (smooth breathing) indicating the absence of an initial /h/ sound, the varia (grave accent) signaling a lower or falling pitch on the syllable, and the prosgegrammeni, a small subscript iota that historically represents a long vowel sound derived from a diphthong. This character appears primarily in scholarly editions of classical Greek texts, where it encodes a specific pronunciation and accentual pattern that differs from modern monotonic Greek.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F8A |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Greek Capital Letter Alpha with Psili and Varia and Prosgegrammeni |
| Block | Greek Extended |
| General Category | Titlecase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "Ἂ" U+1F0A Greek Capital Letter Alpha with Psili and Varia "ͅ" U+0345 Combining Greek Ypogegrammeni |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᾊ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᾊ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xBE 0x8A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1F8A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001F8A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1f8a |