U+1F8A "ᾊ" Greek Capital Letter Alpha with Psili and Varia and Prosgegrammeni Unicode Character

U+1F8A "ᾊ" Greek Capital Letter Alpha with Psili and Varia and Prosgegrammeni is a precomposed representation of the uppercase Greek letter alpha, used in ancient polytonic orthography, which combines three diacritical marks: the psili (smooth breathing) indicating the absence of an initial /h/ sound, the varia (grave accent) signaling a lower or falling pitch on the syllable, and the prosgegrammeni, a small subscript iota that historically represents a long vowel sound derived from a diphthong. This character appears primarily in scholarly editions of classical Greek texts, where it encodes a specific pronunciation and accentual pattern that differs from modern monotonic Greek.