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U+1F71 · GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA WITH OXIA

Greek Small Letter Alpha with Oxia

  • CodepointU+1F71
  • NameGREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA WITH OXIA
  • Decimal8049
  • 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+1F71 (ά) is GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA WITH OXIA, 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+1FBB Ά.

It is a canonical singleton: Unicode treats it as identical to U+03AC ά, and every normalization form (NFC, NFD, NFKC, NFKD) replaces it with that character. Text that must round-trip exactly should avoid it. See the normalization guide.

How to type ά

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Encodings & escapes

UTF-8 encoder →
UTF-8E1 BD B13 bytes
UTF-161F711 code unit
UTF-3200001F714 bytes
HTML decimalά
HTML hexά
CSS\1F71in content: "…"
JavaScript\u1F71
JSON\u1F71
Python\u1F71
Python\N{GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA WITH OXIA}by name
Java / C#\u1F71
C / C++\u1F71universal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{1F71}
Go\u1F71
Ruby\u1F71
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(8049)
URL-encoded%E1%BD%B1percent-encoded UTF-8
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Normalization forms

Normalizer →
NFCU+03AC ά
NFDU+03B1 α + U+0301 ◌́
NFKCU+03AC ά
NFKDU+03B1 α + U+0301 ◌́
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Nearby in Greek Extended

All in block →
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+1F70ὰGreek Small Letter Alpha with Varia 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 U+1F77ίGreek Small Letter Iota with Oxia