U+1FB0 "ᾰ" Greek Small Letter Alpha with Vrachy Unicode Character

U+1FB0 "ᾰ" Greek Small Letter Alpha with Vrachy is a distinct glyph in the Greek script, specifically representing the letter alpha (α) combined with a breve (vrachy) diacritic mark. This character is used in ancient and scholarly Greek text to indicate a short alpha vowel sound, as opposed to a long one, and is particularly important for the accurate transcription of classical poetry and historical documents where vowel length is phonetically or metrically significant. It forms part of the Unicode block for Greek and Coptic, enabling precise digital representation of this specialized orthographic feature.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1FB0
Version Added	1.1
Name	Greek Small Letter Alpha with Vrachy
Block	Greek Extended
General Category	Lowercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right
Decomposition Type	Canonical
Decomposition Mapping	"α" U+03B1 Greek Small Letter Alpha "̆" U+0306 Combining Breve

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ᾰ
HTML Hex Encoding	ᾰ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE1 0xBE 0xB0
UTF-16 Encoding	0x1FB0
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00001FB0
C/C++/Java Escape	\u1fb0

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check	Yes
NFKC Quick Check	Yes
Numeric Type	None
Numeric Value	NaN
Line Break	Alphabetic
Lowercase	Yes
Simple Uppercase Code Point	"Ᾰ" U+1FB8 Greek Capital Letter Alpha with Vrachy
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"Ᾰ" U+1FB8 Greek Capital Letter Alpha with Vrachy
Uppercase Code Point	"Ᾰ" U+1FB8 Greek Capital Letter Alpha with Vrachy
Titlecase Code Point	"Ᾰ" U+1FB8 Greek Capital Letter Alpha with Vrachy
Cased	Yes
Changes When Casemapped	Yes
Changes When Titlecased	Yes
Changes When Uppercased	Yes
Script	Greek
Script Extensions	Greek
Indic Syllabic Category	Other
ID Start	Yes
XID Start	Yes
ID Continue	Yes
XID Continue	Yes
Alphabetic	Yes
Vertical Orientation	Rotated
Grapheme Base	Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break	Other
Word Break	Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break	Lower