ᾶ Greek Small Letter Alpha With Perispomeni

Codes

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

Decomposition

GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA WITH PERISPOMENI is canonically equivalent to the sequence below. Normalising text to NFD splits it into these parts; NFC joins them back into U+1FB6. Search and comparison should normalise first, or the two spellings will not match.

• α U+03B1 Greek Small Letter Alpha
• U+0342 Combining Greek Perispomeni

Nearby in Greek Extended

• ᾭ U+1FAD Greek Capital Letter Omega With Dasia And Oxia And Prosgegrammeni
• ᾮ U+1FAE Greek Capital Letter Omega With Psili And Perispomeni And Prosgegrammeni
• ᾯ U+1FAF Greek Capital Letter Omega With Dasia And Perispomeni And Prosgegrammeni
• ᾰ U+1FB0 Greek Small Letter Alpha With Vrachy
• ᾱ U+1FB1 Greek Small Letter Alpha With Macron
• ᾲ U+1FB2 Greek Small Letter Alpha With Varia And Ypogegrammeni
• ᾳ U+1FB3 Greek Small Letter Alpha With Ypogegrammeni
• ᾴ U+1FB4 Greek Small Letter Alpha With Oxia And Ypogegrammeni
• ᾷ U+1FB7 Greek Small Letter Alpha With Perispomeni And Ypogegrammeni
• Ᾰ U+1FB8 Greek Capital Letter Alpha With Vrachy
• Ᾱ U+1FB9 Greek Capital Letter Alpha With Macron
• Ὰ U+1FBA Greek Capital Letter Alpha With Varia
• Ά U+1FBB Greek Capital Letter Alpha With Oxia
• ᾼ U+1FBC Greek Capital Letter Alpha With Prosgegrammeni
• ᾽ U+1FBD Greek Koronis
• ι U+1FBE Greek Prosgegrammeni

All 233 characters: Greek Extended.

Official reference

• Unicode code chart: Greek Extended (PDF, unicode.org)

Questions people ask

What is the HTML code for ᾶ?

Use ᾶ (decimal) or ᾶ (hex).

What is the UTF-8 encoding of U+1FB6?

E1 BE B6 (hex), 3 bytes. In a URL it is %E1%BE%B6.

How do I write U+1FB6 in JavaScript or Python?

JavaScript: \u1FB6. Python: \u1FB6.

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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