Unicode Character "Ᾱ" (U+1FB9)

The character Ᾱ (Greek Capital Letter Alpha With Macron) is represented by the Unicode codepoint U+1FB9. 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 Capital Letter Alpha With Macron
Unicode Codepoint U+1FB9
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 ᾱ (U+1FB1)

Other Unicode Data

Category Uppercase Letter
Script Greek
Combining Class Not Reordered
Decomposition mapping

U+1FB9 Conversion

HTML (decimal) Ᾱ
HTML (hex) Ᾱ
HTML (named) -
URL Escape Code %E1%BE%B9
CSS \001FB9
JavaScript, JSON \u1FB9
C, C++, Java \u1FB9
Python \u1FB9
Rust \u{1FB9}
Ruby \u1FB9

How to type "Ᾱ"

  • Windows ?: Hold Alt, then type 1 F B 9. Release Alt.
  • Mac ?: Hold Alt ⌥, then type 1 F B 9. 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 0xB9
UTF-16 (hex) 0x1FB9
UTF-32 (hex) 0x00001FB9

References