Ά is the Unicode character GREEK CAPITAL LETTER ALPHA WITH TONOS, code point U+0386 (decimal 902) in the Greek and Coptic block, added in Unicode 1.1. In HTML write Ά, and in UTF-8 it is the 2 bytes CE 86.
Codes
| Where | How to write it |
|---|---|
| Code point | U+0386 |
| Decimal | 902 |
| UTF-8 bytes | CE 86 |
| UTF-16 (big-endian) | 0386 |
| UTF-32 | 00000386 |
| HTML decimal | Ά |
| HTML hex | Ά |
| CSS | \386 |
| JavaScript | \u0386 |
| JSON | \u0386 |
| Python | \u0386 |
| Python by name | \N{GREEK CAPITAL LETTER ALPHA WITH TONOS} |
| Java, C# | \u0386 |
| Rust, Swift | \u{386} |
| Go, C, C++ | \u0386 |
| URL (percent-encoded) | %CE%86 |
JavaScript and JSON strings store text as UTF-16, so this character is one code unit long. Python 3 strings count code points, so its length there is 1.
Properties
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Name | GREEK CAPITAL LETTER ALPHA WITH TONOS |
| Code point | U+0386 (decimal 902) |
| Block | Greek and Coptic (U+0370–U+03FF) |
| General category | Lu: Uppercase letter |
| Script | Greek |
| Bidirectional class | L: Left-to-right |
| Mirrored in right-to-left text | No |
| First in Unicode version | 1.1 |
Decomposition
GREEK CAPITAL LETTER ALPHA WITH TONOS is canonically equivalent to the sequence below. Normalising text to NFD splits it into these parts; NFC joins them back into U+0386. Search and comparison should normalise first, or the two spellings will not match.
Upper and lower case
- ά U+03AC Greek Small Letter Alpha With Tonos — Lowercase
Nearby in Greek and Coptic
- ͺ U+037A Greek Ypogegrammeni
- ͻ U+037B Greek Small Reversed Lunate Sigma Symbol
- ͼ U+037C Greek Small Dotted Lunate Sigma Symbol
- ͽ U+037D Greek Small Reversed Dotted Lunate Sigma Symbol
- ; U+037E Greek Question Mark
- Ϳ U+037F Greek Capital Letter Yot
- ΄ U+0384 Greek Tonos
- ΅ U+0385 Greek Dialytika Tonos
- · U+0387 Greek Ano Teleia
- Έ U+0388 Greek Capital Letter Epsilon With Tonos
- Ή U+0389 Greek Capital Letter Eta With Tonos
- Ί U+038A Greek Capital Letter Iota With Tonos
- Ό U+038C Greek Capital Letter Omicron With Tonos
- Ύ U+038E Greek Capital Letter Upsilon With Tonos
- Ώ U+038F Greek Capital Letter Omega With Tonos
- ΐ U+0390 Greek Small Letter Iota With Dialytika And Tonos
All 135 characters: Greek and Coptic.
Official reference
Questions people ask
- What is the HTML code for Ά?
- Use Ά (decimal) or Ά (hex).
- What is the UTF-8 encoding of U+0386?
- CE 86 (hex), 2 bytes. In a URL it is %CE%86.
- How do I write U+0386 in JavaScript or Python?
- JavaScript: \u0386. Python: \u0386.
Source
Unicode Character Database 18.0.0 (Unicode License v3); HTML entity names from the WHATWG HTML Standard (CC BY 4.0). The encodings above are computed from the code point and checked against Python's encoders. How the character looks depends on your fonts.
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