Unicode Character "Ἀ" U+1F08 Greek Capital Letter Alpha with Psili

Summary

The unicode character "Ἀ" at code point U+1F08 is Greek Capital Letter Alpha with Psili. It is a character in the Greek Extended block and is part of the Greek script. The character is an uppercase letter. The UTF-8 encoding of "Ἀ" is 0xE1 0xBC 0x88 and the UTF-16 encoding is 0x1F08.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1F08
Version Added	1.1
Name	Greek Capital Letter Alpha with Psili
Block	Greek Extended
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+0313 Combining Comma Above

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	Ἀ
HTML Hex Encoding	Ἀ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE1 0xBC 0x88
UTF-16 Encoding	0x1F08
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00001F08
C/C++/Java Escape	\u1f08

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	"ἀ" U+1F00 Greek Small Letter Alpha with Psili
Lowercase Code Point	"ἀ" U+1F00 Greek Small Letter Alpha with Psili
Simple Case Folding	"ἀ" U+1F00 Greek Small Letter Alpha with Psili
Case Folding	"ἀ" U+1F00 Greek Small Letter Alpha with Psili
Cased	Yes
Changes When Casefolded	Yes
Changes When Casemapped	Yes
Changes When Lowercased	Yes
Changes When NFKC Casefolded	Yes
NFKC Casefold	"ἀ" U+1F00 Greek Small Letter Alpha with Psili
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ἀ" U+1F00 Greek Small Letter Alpha with Psili
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