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U+1FB8 · GREEK CAPITAL LETTER ALPHA WITH VRACHY

Greek Capital Letter Alpha with Vrachy

  • CodepointU+1FB8
  • NameGREEK CAPITAL LETTER ALPHA WITH VRACHY
  • Decimal8120
  • 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+1FB8 (Ᾰ) is GREEK CAPITAL LETTER ALPHA WITH VRACHY, 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+1FB0 ᾰ.

It is precomposed. Under NFD it decomposes into U+0391 Α + U+0306 ◌̆, 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 Ᾰ

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Encodings & escapes

UTF-8 encoder →
UTF-8E1 BE B83 bytes
UTF-161FB81 code unit
UTF-3200001FB84 bytes
HTML decimalᾸ
HTML hexᾸ
CSS\1FB8in content: "…"
JavaScript\u1FB8
JSON\u1FB8
Python\u1FB8
Python\N{GREEK CAPITAL LETTER ALPHA WITH VRACHY}by name
Java / C#\u1FB8
C / C++\u1FB8universal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{1FB8}
Go\u1FB8
Ruby\u1FB8
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(8120)
URL-encoded%E1%BE%B8percent-encoded UTF-8
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Normalization forms

Normalizer →
NFCunchanged
NFDU+0391 Α + U+0306 ◌̆
NFKCunchanged
NFKDU+0391 Α + U+0306 ◌̆
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Nearby in Greek Extended

All in block →
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 U+1FB9ᾹGreek Capital Letter Alpha with Macron U+1FBAᾺGreek Capital Letter Alpha with Varia U+1FBBΆGreek Capital Letter Alpha with Oxia U+1FBCᾼGreek Capital Letter Alpha with Prosgegrammeni U+1FBD᾽Greek Koronis U+1FBEιGreek Prosgegrammeni