U+1F8F "ᾏ" Greek Capital Letter Alpha with Dasia and Perispomeni and Prosgegrammeni Unicode Character
U+1F8F "ᾏ" Greek Capital Letter Alpha with Dasia and Perispomeni and Prosgegrammeni is a precomposed polytonic Greek letter used in ancient and liturgical Greek text to represent a long alpha vowel with a rough breathing mark (dasia), a circumflex accent (perispomeni), and an iota subscript (prosgegrammeni) attached as a small iota beneath the vowel. As a capital letter, it typically appears at the beginning of words or in all-caps inscriptions, and its prosgegrammeni component indicates a long alpha followed by an unwritten iota sound, common in older Greek orthography for certain noun and verb forms. This character is part of the Unicode block Greek Extended, bridging archaic scribal conventions with modern digital encoding for scholarly, religious, or historical documentation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F8F |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Greek Capital Letter Alpha with Dasia and Perispomeni and Prosgegrammeni |
| Block | Greek Extended |
| General Category | Titlecase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "Ἇ" U+1F0F Greek Capital 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 0x8F |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1F8F |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001F8F |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1f8f |