Unicode Character "ά" (U+1F71)

The character (Greek Small Letter Alpha With Oxia) is represented by the Unicode codepoint U+1F71. 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 ά.

Main Unicode Properties

Name Greek Small Letter Alpha With Oxia
Unicode Codepoint U+1F71
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 Lowercase
Uppercase character (U+1FBB)

Other Unicode Data

Category Lowercase Letter
Script Greek
Combining Class Not Reordered
Decomposition mapping

U+1F71 Conversion

HTML (decimal) ά
HTML (hex) ά
HTML (named) -
URL Escape Code %E1%BD%B1
CSS \001F71
JavaScript, JSON \u1F71
C, C++, Java \u1F71
Python \u1F71
Rust \u{1F71}
Ruby \u1F71

How to type "ά"

  • Windows ?: Hold Alt, then type 1 F 7 1. Release Alt.
  • Mac ?: Hold Alt ⌥, then type 1 F 7 1. Release Alt.

Preview

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

UTF Encodings

UTF-8 (hex) 0xE1 0xBD 0xB1
UTF-16 (hex) 0x1F71
UTF-32 (hex) 0x00001F71

References