Unicode Character "Ά" U+0386 Greek Capital Letter Alpha with Tonos
Unicode Version 15.1
Ά
Summary
The unicode character "Ά" at code point U+0386 is Greek Capital Letter Alpha with Tonos. It is a character in the Greek and Coptic block and is part of the Greek script. The character is an uppercase letter. The UTF-8 encoding of "Ά" is 0xCE 0x86 and the UTF-16 encoding is 0x0386.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0386 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Greek Capital Letter Alpha with Tonos |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Greek Capital Letter Alpha Tonos |
| Block | Greek and Coptic |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "Α" U+0391 Greek Capital Letter Alpha "́" U+0301 Combining Acute Accent |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ά |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ά |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xCE 0x86 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0386 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000386 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0386 |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Yes |
| Expands On NFD | Yes |
| Expands On NKFD | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Alphabetic |
| Uppercase | Yes |
| Simple Lowercase Code Point | "ά" U+03AC Greek Small Letter Alpha with Tonos |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ά" U+03AC Greek Small Letter Alpha with Tonos |
| Simple Case Folding | "ά" U+03AC Greek Small Letter Alpha with Tonos |
| Case Folding | "ά" U+03AC Greek Small Letter Alpha with Tonos |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ά" U+03AC Greek Small Letter Alpha with Tonos |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ά" U+03AC Greek Small Letter Alpha with Tonos |
| Script | Greek |
| Script Extensions | Greek |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| ID Start | Yes |
| XID Start | Yes |
| ID Continue | Yes |
| XID Continue | Yes |
| Alphabetic | Yes |
| Vertical Orientation | Rotated |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Alphabetic letter |
| Sentence Break | Upper |