U+1FB2 "ᾲ" Greek Small Letter Alpha with Varia and Ypogegrammeni Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1FB2 "ᾲ" Greek Small Letter Alpha with Varia and Ypogegrammeni is a precomposed character used in polytonic Greek orthography, combining the Greek small letter alpha (α) with the varia accent (grave) and an iota subscript (ypogegrammeni), which indicates the long vowel α with a falling pitch followed by a silent iota that was historically pronounced. This character typically appears in ancient or liturgical Greek texts to represent a specific grammatical form, such as the feminine nominative singular of certain contracted verbs or nouns, and is rendered as a single codepoint in Unicode to facilitate correct display and processing in digital environments where polytonic Greek is supported.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1FB2 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Greek Small Letter Alpha with Varia and Ypogegrammeni |
| Block | Greek Extended |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ὰ" U+1F70 Greek Small Letter Alpha with Varia "ͅ" U+0345 Combining Greek Ypogegrammeni |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᾲ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᾲ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xBE 0xB2 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1FB2 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001FB2 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1fb2 |