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U+1F08 · GREEK CAPITAL LETTER ALPHA WITH PSILI

Greek Capital Letter Alpha with Psili

  • CodepointU+1F08
  • NameGREEK CAPITAL LETTER ALPHA WITH PSILI
  • Decimal7944
  • BlockGreek Extended (U+1F00–U+1FFF)
  • 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+1F08 (Ἀ) is GREEK CAPITAL LETTER ALPHA WITH PSILI, an uppercase letter in the Greek Extended block. It belongs to the Greek script. It was added in Unicode 1.1 (1993).

Its lowercase form is U+1F00 ἀ.

It is precomposed. Under NFD it decomposes into U+0391 Α + U+0313 ◌̓, 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 Ἀ

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Encodings & escapes

UTF-8 encoder →
UTF-8E1 BC 883 bytes
UTF-161F081 code unit
UTF-3200001F084 bytes
HTML decimalἈ
HTML hexἈ
CSS\1F08in content: "…"
JavaScript\u1F08
JSON\u1F08
Python\u1F08
Python\N{GREEK CAPITAL LETTER ALPHA WITH PSILI}by name
Java / C#\u1F08
C / C++\u1F08universal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{1F08}
Go\u1F08
Ruby\u1F08
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(7944)
URL-encoded%E1%BC%88percent-encoded UTF-8
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Normalization forms

Normalizer →
NFCunchanged
NFDU+0391 Α + U+0313 ◌̓
NFKCunchanged
NFKDU+0391 Α + U+0313 ◌̓
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Characters built on Ἀ

U+1F0AἊGreek Capital Letter Alpha with Psili and Varia U+1F0CἌGreek Capital Letter Alpha with Psili and Oxia U+1F0EἎGreek Capital Letter Alpha with Psili and Perispomeni U+1F88ᾈGreek Capital Letter Alpha with Psili and Prosgegrammeni
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Nearby in Greek Extended

All in block →
U+1F02ἂGreek Small Letter Alpha with Psili and Varia U+1F03ἃGreek Small Letter Alpha with Dasia and Varia U+1F04ἄGreek Small Letter Alpha with Psili and Oxia U+1F05ἅGreek Small Letter Alpha with Dasia and Oxia U+1F06ἆGreek Small Letter Alpha with Psili and Perispomeni U+1F07ἇGreek Small Letter Alpha with Dasia and Perispomeni U+1F09ἉGreek Capital Letter Alpha with Dasia U+1F0AἊGreek Capital Letter Alpha with Psili and Varia U+1F0BἋGreek Capital Letter Alpha with Dasia and Varia U+1F0CἌGreek Capital Letter Alpha with Psili and Oxia U+1F0DἍGreek Capital Letter Alpha with Dasia and Oxia U+1F0EἎGreek Capital Letter Alpha with Psili and Perispomeni