U+1FB3 "ᾳ" Greek Small Letter Alpha with Ypogegrammeni Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1FB3 "ᾳ" Greek Small Letter Alpha with Ypogegrammeni is a composite glyph used in the polytonic orthography of the Greek language, representing the alpha vowel combined with an iota subscript (a small iota written underneath the letter). This character typically appears in ancient or liturgical texts to indicate a long diphthong or a specific grammatical context, such as in the dative case of certain nouns. It is distinct from a simple alpha because the ypogegrammeni (meaning "underwritten") marks a historical iota that is no longer pronounced in modern Greek but remains important for proper textual representation and scholarly accuracy.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1FB3 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Greek Small Letter Alpha with Ypogegrammeni |
| 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+0345 Combining Greek Ypogegrammeni |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᾳ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᾳ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xBE 0xB3 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1FB3 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001FB3 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1fb3 |