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U+1FB1 · GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA WITH MACRON

Greek Small Letter Alpha with Macron

  • CodepointU+1FB1
  • NameGREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA WITH MACRON
  • Decimal8113
  • 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+1FB1 (ᾱ) is GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA WITH MACRON, 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+1FB9 Ᾱ.

It is precomposed. Under NFD it decomposes into U+03B1 α + U+0304 ◌̄, 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 ᾱ

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Encodings & escapes

UTF-8 encoder →
UTF-8E1 BE B13 bytes
UTF-161FB11 code unit
UTF-3200001FB14 bytes
HTML decimalᾱ
HTML hexᾱ
CSS\1FB1in content: "…"
JavaScript\u1FB1
JSON\u1FB1
Python\u1FB1
Python\N{GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA WITH MACRON}by name
Java / C#\u1FB1
C / C++\u1FB1universal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{1FB1}
Go\u1FB1
Ruby\u1FB1
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(8113)
URL-encoded%E1%BE%B1percent-encoded UTF-8
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Normalization forms

Normalizer →
NFCunchanged
NFDU+03B1 α + U+0304 ◌̄
NFKCunchanged
NFKDU+03B1 α + U+0304 ◌̄
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Nearby in Greek Extended

All in block →
U+1FABᾫGreek Capital Letter Omega with Dasia and Varia and Prosgegrammeni U+1FACᾬGreek Capital Letter Omega with Psili and Oxia and Prosgegrammeni U+1FADᾭGreek Capital Letter Omega with Dasia and Oxia and Prosgegrammeni U+1FAEᾮGreek Capital Letter Omega with Psili and Perispomeni and Prosgegrammeni U+1FAFᾯGreek Capital Letter Omega with Dasia and Perispomeni and Prosgegrammeni U+1FB0ᾰGreek Small Letter Alpha with Vrachy U+1FB2ᾲGreek Small Letter Alpha with Varia and Ypogegrammeni U+1FB3ᾳGreek Small Letter Alpha with Ypogegrammeni U+1FB4ᾴGreek Small Letter Alpha with Oxia and Ypogegrammeni U+1FB6ᾶGreek Small Letter Alpha with Perispomeni U+1FB7ᾷGreek Small Letter Alpha with Perispomeni and Ypogegrammeni