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U+03AC · GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA WITH TONOS

Greek Small Letter Alpha with Tonos

  • CodepointU+03AC
  • NameGREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA WITH TONOS
  • Decimal940
  • BlockGreek and Coptic (U+0370–U+03FF)
  • Plane0 — Basic Multilingual Plane
  • ScriptGreek
  • CategoryLl — Lowercase Letter
  • Unicode version1.1 (1993)
  • Bidi classL — Left-to-Right
  • Combining class0
  • East Asian widthN — Neutral
  • MirroredNo

About this character

U+03AC (ά) is GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA WITH TONOS, a lowercase letter in the Greek and Coptic block. It belongs to the Greek script. It was added in Unicode 1.1 (1993).

Its uppercase form is U+0386 Ά.

It is precomposed. Under NFD it decomposes into U+03B1 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 AC2 bytes
UTF-1603AC1 code unit
UTF-32000003AC4 bytes
HTML decimalά
HTML hexά
CSS\3ACin content: "…"
JavaScript\u03AC
JSON\u03AC
Python\u03AC
Python\N{GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA WITH TONOS}by name
Java / C#\u03AC
C / C++\u03ACuniversal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{3AC}
Go\u03AC
Ruby\u03AC
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(940)
URL-encoded%CE%ACpercent-encoded UTF-8
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Normalization forms

Normalizer →
NFCunchanged
NFDU+03B1 α + U+0301 ◌́
NFKCunchanged
NFKDU+03B1 α + U+0301 ◌́
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Characters built on ά

U+1F71άGreek Small Letter Alpha with Oxia U+1FB4ᾴGreek Small Letter Alpha with Oxia and Ypogegrammeni
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Nearby in Greek and Coptic

All in block →
U+03A6ΦGreek Capital Letter Phi U+03A7ΧGreek Capital Letter Chi U+03A8ΨGreek Capital Letter Psi U+03A9ΩGreek Capital Letter Omega U+03AAΪGreek Capital Letter Iota with Dialytika U+03ABΫGreek Capital Letter Upsilon with Dialytika U+03ADέGreek Small Letter Epsilon with Tonos U+03AEήGreek Small Letter Eta with Tonos U+03AFίGreek Small Letter Iota with Tonos U+03B0ΰGreek Small Letter Upsilon with Dialytika and Tonos U+03B1αGreek Small Letter Alpha U+03B2βGreek Small Letter Beta