Unicode Character "ᾱ" (U+1FB1)

The character ᾱ (Greek Small Letter Alpha With Macron) is represented by the Unicode codepoint U+1FB1. 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 ᾱ.

Main Unicode Properties

Name Greek Small Letter Alpha With Macron
Unicode Codepoint U+1FB1
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 Ᾱ (U+1FB9)

Other Unicode Data

Category Lowercase Letter
Script Greek
Combining Class Not Reordered
Decomposition mapping

U+1FB1 Conversion

HTML (decimal) ᾱ
HTML (hex) ᾱ
HTML (named) -
URL Escape Code %E1%BE%B1
CSS \001FB1
JavaScript, JSON \u1FB1
C, C++, Java \u1FB1
Python \u1FB1
Rust \u{1FB1}
Ruby \u1FB1

How to type "ᾱ"

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

Preview

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

UTF Encodings

UTF-8 (hex) 0xE1 0xBE 0xB1
UTF-16 (hex) 0x1FB1
UTF-32 (hex) 0x00001FB1

References