ἄ

GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA WITH PSILI AND OXIA

U+1F04 Lowercase Letter (Ll) · Greek Extended · Grek

Overview

Two diacritics combine on a single vowel in U+1F04: psili, the smooth breathing that marks the absence of initial aspiration, and oxia, the acute accent marking pitch. Ancient Greek orthography routinely stacks a breathing and an accent on the same letter, and the Greek Extended block encodes each attested combination as one precomposed character. Canonical decomposition unpacks it into alpha plus two combining marks, so NFD and NFC forms of the same word compare as equal. The general category is Ll (letter, lowercase). Monotonic modern Greek dispenses with breathings entirely, which is why this range serves chiefly classical and liturgical texts.

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Encoding Table

Format Value Copy
unicode U+1F04
decimal 7940
htmldecimal ἄ
htmlhex ἄ
css \1F04
javascript \u{1F04}
python \u1f04
java \u1F04
go \u1F04
ruby \u{1F04}
rust \u{1F04}
ccpp \u1f04
urlencoded %E1%BC%84
utf8bytes e1 bc 84
utf16bebytes 1f 04
utf32bebytes 00 00 1f 04

How to Use

HTML: ἄ
CSS: content: "\1F04"
JavaScript: "\u{1F04}"
Python: "\u1f04"

Properties

Script
Grek
Category
Lowercase Letter (Ll)
Bidirectional
L
Combining
0
Mirrored
No
Decomposition
1F00 0301
← ἃ U+1F03 U+1F05 ἅ →

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the ἄ character (GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA WITH PSILI AND OXIA)?

ἄ (GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA WITH PSILI AND OXIA) is the Unicode character U+1F04.

What is the Unicode codepoint of GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA WITH PSILI AND OXIA?

The GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA WITH PSILI AND OXIA character (ἄ) has codepoint U+1F04.

How do I type or copy GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA WITH PSILI AND OXIA?

Copy ἄ directly, or use the HTML entity, UTF-8, and code encodings shown on this page.