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U+1FB9 · GREEK CAPITAL LETTER ALPHA WITH MACRON

Greek Capital Letter Alpha with Macron

  • CodepointU+1FB9
  • NameGREEK CAPITAL LETTER ALPHA WITH MACRON
  • Decimal8121
  • 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+1FB9 (Ᾱ) is GREEK CAPITAL LETTER ALPHA WITH MACRON, 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+1FB1 ᾱ.

It is precomposed. Under NFD it decomposes into U+0391 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 B93 bytes
UTF-161FB91 code unit
UTF-3200001FB94 bytes
HTML decimalᾹ
HTML hexᾹ
CSS\1FB9in content: "…"
JavaScript\u1FB9
JSON\u1FB9
Python\u1FB9
Python\N{GREEK CAPITAL LETTER ALPHA WITH MACRON}by name
Java / C#\u1FB9
C / C++\u1FB9universal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{1FB9}
Go\u1FB9
Ruby\u1FB9
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(8121)
URL-encoded%E1%BE%B9percent-encoded UTF-8
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Normalization forms

Normalizer →
NFCunchanged
NFDU+0391 Α + U+0304 ◌̄
NFKCunchanged
NFKDU+0391 Α + U+0304 ◌̄
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Nearby in Greek Extended

All in block →
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+1FB8ᾸGreek Capital Letter Alpha with Vrachy 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 U+1FBF᾿Greek Psili