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U+0386 · GREEK CAPITAL LETTER ALPHA WITH TONOS

Greek Capital Letter Alpha with Tonos

  • CodepointU+0386
  • NameGREEK CAPITAL LETTER ALPHA WITH TONOS
  • Decimal902
  • BlockGreek and Coptic (U+0370–U+03FF)
  • Plane0 — Basic Multilingual Plane
  • ScriptGreek
  • CategoryLu — Uppercase Letter
  • Unicode version1.1 (1993)
  • Bidi classL — Left-to-Right
  • Combining class0
  • East Asian widthN — Neutral
  • MirroredNo

About this character

U+0386 (Ά) is GREEK CAPITAL LETTER ALPHA WITH TONOS, an uppercase letter in the Greek and Coptic block. It belongs to the Greek script. It was added in Unicode 1.1 (1993).

Its lowercase form is U+03AC ά.

It is precomposed. Under NFD it decomposes into U+0391 Α + U+0301 ◌́, and NFC recombines that sequence into this single codepoint, so both spellings are canonically equivalent and should compare equal after normalization. See the normalization guide.

How to type Ά

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Encodings & escapes

UTF-8 encoder →
UTF-8CE 862 bytes
UTF-1603861 code unit
UTF-32000003864 bytes
HTML decimalΆ
HTML hexΆ
CSS\386in content: "…"
JavaScript\u0386
JSON\u0386
Python\u0386
Python\N{GREEK CAPITAL LETTER ALPHA WITH TONOS}by name
Java / C#\u0386
C / C++\u0386universal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{386}
Go\u0386
Ruby\u0386
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(902)
URL-encoded%CE%86percent-encoded UTF-8
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Normalization forms

Normalizer →
NFCunchanged
NFDU+0391 Α + U+0301 ◌́
NFKCunchanged
NFKDU+0391 Α + U+0301 ◌́
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Characters built on Ά

U+1FBBΆGreek Capital Letter Alpha with Oxia
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Nearby in Greek and Coptic

All in block →
U+0384΄Greek Tonos U+0385΅Greek Dialytika Tonos U+0387·Greek Ano Teleia U+0388ΈGreek Capital Letter Epsilon with Tonos U+0389ΉGreek Capital Letter Eta with Tonos U+038AΊGreek Capital Letter Iota with Tonos U+038CΌGreek Capital Letter Omicron with Tonos