ἄ is the Unicode character GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA WITH PSILI AND OXIA, code point U+1F04 (decimal 7940) in the Greek Extended block, added in Unicode 1.1. In HTML write ἄ, and in UTF-8 it is the 3 bytes E1 BC 84.
Codes
| Where | How to write it |
|---|---|
| Code point | U+1F04 |
| Decimal | 7940 |
| UTF-8 bytes | E1 BC 84 |
| UTF-16 (big-endian) | 1F04 |
| UTF-32 | 00001F04 |
| HTML decimal | ἄ |
| HTML hex | ἄ |
| CSS | \1F04 |
| JavaScript | \u1F04 |
| JSON | \u1F04 |
| Python | \u1F04 |
| Python by name | \N{GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA WITH PSILI AND OXIA} |
| Java, C# | \u1F04 |
| Rust, Swift | \u{1F04} |
| Go, C, C++ | \u1F04 |
| URL (percent-encoded) | %E1%BC%84 |
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 SMALL LETTER ALPHA WITH PSILI AND OXIA |
| Code point | U+1F04 (decimal 7940) |
| Block | Greek Extended (U+1F00–U+1FFF) |
| General category | Ll: Lowercase letter |
| Script | Greek |
| Bidirectional class | L: Left-to-right |
| Mirrored in right-to-left text | No |
| First in Unicode version | 1.1 |
Decomposition
GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA WITH PSILI AND OXIA is canonically equivalent to the sequence below. Normalising text to NFD splits it into these parts; NFC joins them back into U+1F04. Search and comparison should normalise first, or the two spellings will not match.
Upper and lower case
Nearby in Greek Extended
- ἀ U+1F00 Greek Small Letter Alpha With Psili
- ἁ U+1F01 Greek Small Letter Alpha With Dasia
- ἂ U+1F02 Greek Small Letter Alpha With Psili And Varia
- ἃ U+1F03 Greek Small Letter Alpha With Dasia And Varia
- ἅ U+1F05 Greek Small Letter Alpha With Dasia And Oxia
- ἆ U+1F06 Greek Small Letter Alpha With Psili And Perispomeni
- ἇ U+1F07 Greek Small Letter Alpha With Dasia And Perispomeni
- Ἀ U+1F08 Greek Capital Letter Alpha With Psili
- Ἁ U+1F09 Greek Capital Letter Alpha With Dasia
- Ἂ U+1F0A Greek Capital Letter Alpha With Psili And Varia
- Ἃ U+1F0B Greek Capital Letter Alpha With Dasia And Varia
- Ἄ U+1F0C Greek Capital Letter Alpha With Psili And Oxia
All 233 characters: Greek Extended.
Official reference
Questions people ask
- What is the HTML code for ἄ?
- Use ἄ (decimal) or ἄ (hex).
- What is the UTF-8 encoding of U+1F04?
- E1 BC 84 (hex), 3 bytes. In a URL it is %E1%BC%84.
- How do I write U+1F04 in JavaScript or Python?
- JavaScript: \u1F04. Python: \u1F04.
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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