U+1F05 "ἅ" Greek Small Letter Alpha with Dasia and Oxia Unicode Character
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U+1F05 "ἅ" Greek Small Letter Alpha with Dasia and Oxia is a precomposed alphabetic glyph used in the polytonic orthography of Ancient Greek. It represents the letter alpha (Α/α) with two combined diacritical marks: the dasia, a rough breathing mark indicating an initial "h" sound, and the oxia, an acute accent denoting a high pitch or stressed syllable. This specific character is part of the Greek Extended block and is employed primarily in scholarly or liturgical texts to accurately transcribe classical Greek pronunciation, distinguishing it from its unaccented or differently accented counterparts.
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General Properties
Code Point
U+1F05
Name
Greek Small Letter Alpha with Dasia and Oxia
Decomposition Mapping
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
ἅ
HTML Hex Encoding
ἅ
UTF-8 Encoding
0xE1 0xBC 0x85
UTF-16 Encoding
0x1F05
UTF-32 Encoding
0x00001F05
C/C++/Java Escape
\u1f05
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
Simple Uppercase Code Point
Simple Titlecase Code Point
Uppercase Code Point
Titlecase Code Point
Script Extensions
Greek