ὰ is the Unicode character GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA WITH VARIA, code point U+1F70 (decimal 8048) in the Greek Extended block, added in Unicode 1.1. In HTML write ὰ, and in UTF-8 it is the 3 bytes E1 BD B0.
Codes
| Where | How to write it |
|---|---|
| Code point | U+1F70 |
| Decimal | 8048 |
| UTF-8 bytes | E1 BD B0 |
| UTF-16 (big-endian) | 1F70 |
| UTF-32 | 00001F70 |
| HTML decimal | ὰ |
| HTML hex | ὰ |
| CSS | \1F70 |
| JavaScript | \u1F70 |
| JSON | \u1F70 |
| Python | \u1F70 |
| Python by name | \N{GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA WITH VARIA} |
| Java, C# | \u1F70 |
| Rust, Swift | \u{1F70} |
| Go, C, C++ | \u1F70 |
| URL (percent-encoded) | %E1%BD%B0 |
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 VARIA |
| Code point | U+1F70 (decimal 8048) |
| 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 VARIA is canonically equivalent to the sequence below. Normalising text to NFD splits it into these parts; NFC joins them back into U+1F70. Search and comparison should normalise first, or the two spellings will not match.
Upper and lower case
- Ὰ U+1FBA Greek Capital Letter Alpha With Varia — Uppercase
Nearby in Greek Extended
- Ὠ U+1F68 Greek Capital Letter Omega With Psili
- Ὡ U+1F69 Greek Capital Letter Omega With Dasia
- Ὢ U+1F6A Greek Capital Letter Omega With Psili And Varia
- Ὣ U+1F6B Greek Capital Letter Omega With Dasia And Varia
- Ὤ U+1F6C Greek Capital Letter Omega With Psili And Oxia
- Ὥ U+1F6D Greek Capital Letter Omega With Dasia And Oxia
- Ὦ U+1F6E Greek Capital Letter Omega With Psili And Perispomeni
- Ὧ U+1F6F Greek Capital Letter Omega With Dasia And Perispomeni
- ά U+1F71 Greek Small Letter Alpha With Oxia
- ὲ U+1F72 Greek Small Letter Epsilon With Varia
- έ U+1F73 Greek Small Letter Epsilon With Oxia
- ὴ U+1F74 Greek Small Letter Eta With Varia
- ή U+1F75 Greek Small Letter Eta With Oxia
- ὶ U+1F76 Greek Small Letter Iota With Varia
- ί U+1F77 Greek Small Letter Iota With Oxia
- ὸ U+1F78 Greek Small Letter Omicron With Varia
All 233 characters: Greek Extended.
Official reference
Questions people ask
- What is the HTML code for ὰ?
- Use ὰ (decimal) or ὰ (hex).
- What is the UTF-8 encoding of U+1F70?
- E1 BD B0 (hex), 3 bytes. In a URL it is %E1%BD%B0.
- How do I write U+1F70 in JavaScript or Python?
- JavaScript: \u1F70. Python: \u1F70.
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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