Unicode Character "Ά" (U+1FBB)

The character Ά (GREEK CAPITAL LETTER ALPHA WITH OXIA) is represented by the Unicode codepoint U+1FBB. 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 CAPITAL LETTER ALPHA WITH OXIA
Unicode Codepoint U+1FBB
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 ά (U+1F71)

Other Unicode Data

Category Uppercase Letter
Script Greek
Combining Class Not Reordered
Decomposition mapping

U+1FBB Conversion

HTML (decimal) Ά
HTML (hex) Ά
HTML (named) -
URL Escape Code %E1%BE%BB
CSS \1FBB
JavaScript \u{1FBB}
JSON \u1FBB
C, C++ \U00001FBB
Java \u1FBB
Python \U00001FBB
Rust \u{1FBB}
Ruby \u{1FBB}

How to type "Ά"

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

Preview

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

UTF Encodings

UTF-8 (hex) 0xE1 0xBE 0xBB
UTF-16 (hex) 0x1FBB
UTF-32 (hex) 0x00001FBB

References