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U+1FBA · GREEK CAPITAL LETTER ALPHA WITH VARIA

Greek Capital Letter Alpha with Varia

  • CodepointU+1FBA
  • NameGREEK CAPITAL LETTER ALPHA WITH VARIA
  • Decimal8122
  • 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+1FBA (Ὰ) is GREEK CAPITAL LETTER ALPHA WITH VARIA, 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+1F70 ὰ.

It is precomposed. Under NFD it decomposes into U+0391 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 BE BA3 bytes
UTF-161FBA1 code unit
UTF-3200001FBA4 bytes
HTML decimalᾺ
HTML hexᾺ
CSS\1FBAin content: "…"
JavaScript\u1FBA
JSON\u1FBA
Python\u1FBA
Python\N{GREEK CAPITAL LETTER ALPHA WITH VARIA}by name
Java / C#\u1FBA
C / C++\u1FBAuniversal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{1FBA}
Go\u1FBA
Ruby\u1FBA
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(8122)
URL-encoded%E1%BE%BApercent-encoded UTF-8
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Normalization forms

Normalizer →
NFCunchanged
NFDU+0391 Α + U+0300 ◌̀
NFKCunchanged
NFKDU+0391 Α + U+0300 ◌̀
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Nearby in Greek Extended

All in block →
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+1FB9ᾹGreek Capital Letter Alpha with Macron 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 U+1FC0῀Greek Perispomeni