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U+1F70 · GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA WITH VARIA

Greek Small Letter Alpha with Varia

  • CodepointU+1F70
  • NameGREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA WITH VARIA
  • Decimal8048
  • BlockGreek Extended (U+1F00–U+1FFF)
  • 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+1F70 (ὰ) is GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA WITH VARIA, a lowercase letter in the Greek Extended block. It belongs to the Greek script. It was added in Unicode 1.1 (1993).

Its uppercase form is U+1FBA Ὰ.

It is precomposed. Under NFD it decomposes into U+03B1 α + U+0300 ◌̀, 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 ὰ

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Encodings & escapes

UTF-8 encoder →
UTF-8E1 BD B03 bytes
UTF-161F701 code unit
UTF-3200001F704 bytes
HTML decimalὰ
HTML hexὰ
CSS\1F70in content: "…"
JavaScript\u1F70
JSON\u1F70
Python\u1F70
Python\N{GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA WITH VARIA}by name
Java / C#\u1F70
C / C++\u1F70universal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{1F70}
Go\u1F70
Ruby\u1F70
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(8048)
URL-encoded%E1%BD%B0percent-encoded UTF-8
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Normalization forms

Normalizer →
NFCunchanged
NFDU+03B1 α + U+0300 ◌̀
NFKCunchanged
NFKDU+03B1 α + U+0300 ◌̀
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Characters built on ὰ

U+1FB2ᾲGreek Small Letter Alpha with Varia and Ypogegrammeni
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Nearby in Greek Extended

All in block →
U+1F6AὪGreek Capital Letter Omega with Psili and Varia U+1F6BὫGreek Capital Letter Omega with Dasia and Varia U+1F6CὬGreek Capital Letter Omega with Psili and Oxia U+1F6DὭGreek Capital Letter Omega with Dasia and Oxia U+1F6EὮGreek Capital Letter Omega with Psili and Perispomeni U+1F6FὯGreek Capital Letter Omega with Dasia and Perispomeni U+1F71άGreek Small Letter Alpha with Oxia U+1F72ὲGreek Small Letter Epsilon with Varia U+1F73έGreek Small Letter Epsilon with Oxia U+1F74ὴGreek Small Letter Eta with Varia U+1F75ήGreek Small Letter Eta with Oxia U+1F76ὶGreek Small Letter Iota with Varia