Unicode Character "Ᾱ" U+1FB9 Greek Capital Letter Alpha with Macron
Unicode Version 15.1
Ᾱ
Summary
The unicode character "Ᾱ" at code point U+1FB9 is Greek Capital Letter Alpha with Macron. 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 "Ᾱ" is 0xE1 0xBE 0xB9 and the UTF-16 encoding is 0x1FB9.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1FB9 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Greek Capital Letter Alpha with Macron |
| 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+0304 Combining Macron |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ᾱ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ᾱ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xBE 0xB9 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1FB9 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001FB9 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1fb9 |
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 | "ᾱ" U+1FB1 Greek Small Letter Alpha with Macron |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ᾱ" U+1FB1 Greek Small Letter Alpha with Macron |
| Simple Case Folding | "ᾱ" U+1FB1 Greek Small Letter Alpha with Macron |
| Case Folding | "ᾱ" U+1FB1 Greek Small Letter Alpha with Macron |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ᾱ" U+1FB1 Greek Small Letter Alpha with Macron |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ᾱ" U+1FB1 Greek Small Letter Alpha with Macron |
| 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 |