Unicode Character "Ἀ" (U+1F08)

The character (Greek Capital Letter Alpha With Psili) is represented by the Unicode codepoint U+1F08. It is encoded in the Greek Extended block, which belongs to the Basic Multilingual Plane. It was added to Unicode in version 1.1 (June, 1993). It is HTML encoded as Ἀ.

Main Unicode Properties

Name Greek Capital Letter Alpha With Psili
Unicode Codepoint U+1F08
Unicode Version 1.1 (June, 1993)
Block Greek Extended
Plane Basic Multilingual Plane

Bidirectional Data

Bidirectional class Left To Right (L)
Is mirrored? No

Character Case

Case Uppercase
Lowercase character (U+1F00)

Other Unicode Data

Category Uppercase Letter
Script Greek
Combining Class Not Reordered
Decomposition mapping

U+1F08 Conversion

HTML (decimal) Ἀ
HTML (hex) Ἀ
HTML (named) -
URL Escape Code %E1%BC%88
CSS \001F08
JavaScript, JSON \u1F08
C, C++, Java \u1F08
Python \u1F08
Rust \u{1F08}
Ruby \u1F08

How to type "Ἀ"

  • Windows ?: Hold Alt, then type 1 F 0 8. Release Alt.
  • Mac ?: Hold Alt ⌥, then type 1 F 0 8. Release Alt.

Preview

  • Times, Times New Roman, serif
  • Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif
  • Courier, Courier New, monospace

UTF Encodings

UTF-8 (hex) 0xE1 0xBC 0x88
UTF-16 (hex) 0x1F08
UTF-32 (hex) 0x00001F08

Characters based on "Ἀ" (U+1F08)

  • U+1F0A

    Greek Capital Letter Alpha With Psili And Varia

  • U+1F0C

    Greek Capital Letter Alpha With Psili And Oxia

  • U+1F0E

    Greek Capital Letter Alpha With Psili And Perispomeni

  • U+1F88

    Greek Capital Letter Alpha With Psili And Prosgegrammeni

References