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Glyph for U+1F8B
Source: Noto Sans

U+1F8B Greek Capital Letter Alpha with Dasia and Varia and Prosgegrammeni

U+1F8B was added in Unicode version 1.1 in 1993. It belongs to the block U+1F00 to U+1FFF Greek Extended in the U+0000 to U+FFFF Basic Multilingual Plane.

This character is a Titlecase Letter and is mainly used in the Greek script. Its uppercase variant is Glyph for U+1F0B Greek Capital Letter Alpha with Dasia and VariaGlyph for U+0399 Greek Capital Letter Iota and its lowercase variant is Glyph for U+1F83 Greek Small Letter Alpha with Dasia and Varia and Ypogegrammeni.

The glyph is a canonical composition of the glyphs Glyph for U+1F0B Greek Capital Letter Alpha with Dasia and Varia, Glyph for U+0345 Combining Greek Ypogegrammeni. It has no designated width in East Asian texts. In bidirectional text it is written from left to right. When changing direction it is not mirrored. The word that U+1F8B forms with similar adjacent characters prevents a line break inside it.

The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:

Greek orthography has used a variety of diacritics starting in the Hellenistic period. The more complex polytonic orthography (Greek: πολυτονικό σύστημα γραφής, romanized: polytonikó sýstīma grafī́s), which includes five diacritics, notates Ancient Greek phonology. The simpler monotonic orthography (Greek: μονοτονικό σύστημα γραφής, romanized: monotonikó sýstīma grafī́s), introduced in 1982, corresponds to Modern Greek phonology, and requires only two diacritics.

Polytonic orthography (from Ancient Greek πολύς (polýs) 'much, many', and τόνος (tónos) 'accent') is the standard system for Ancient Greek and Medieval Greek. The acute accent (´), the circumflex (ˆ), and the grave accent (`) indicate different kinds of pitch accent. The rough breathing () indicates the presence of the /h/ sound before a letter, while the smooth breathing (᾿) indicates the absence of /h/.

Since in Modern Greek the pitch accent has been replaced by a dynamic accent (stress), and /h/ was lost, most polytonic diacritics have no phonetic significance, and merely reveal the underlying Ancient Greek etymology.

Monotonic orthography (from Ancient Greek μόνος (mónos) 'single', and τόνος (tónos) 'accent') is the standard system for Modern Greek. It retains two diacritics: a single accent or tonos (΄) that indicates stress, and the diaeresis (¨), which usually indicates a hiatus but occasionally indicates a diphthong: compare modern Greek παϊδάκια (/paiðakia/, "lamb chops"), with a diphthong, and παιδάκια (/peˈðakia/, "little children") with a simple vowel. A tonos and a diaeresis can be combined on a single vowel to indicate a stressed vowel after a hiatus, as in the verb ταΐζω (/taˈizo/, "I feed").

Although it is not a diacritic, the hypodiastole (comma) has in a similar way the function of a sound-changing diacritic in a handful of Greek words, principally distinguishing ό,τι (ó,ti, "whatever") from ότι (óti, "that").

Representations

System Representation
8075
UTF-8 E1 BE 8B
UTF-16 1F 8B
UTF-32 00 00 1F 8B
URL-Quoted %E1%BE%8B
HTML hex reference ᾋ
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake ᾋ

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Complete Record

Property Value
Age (age) 1.1 (1993)
Unicode Name (na) GREEK CAPITAL LETTER ALPHA WITH DASIA AND VARIA AND PROSGEGRAMMENI
Unicode 1 Name (na1)
Block (blk) Greek Extended
General Category (gc) Titlecase Letter
Script (sc) Greek
Bidirectional Category (bc) Left To Right
Combining Class (ccc) Not Reordered
Decomposition Type (dt) canonical
Decomposition Mapping (dm) Glyph for U+1F0B Greek Capital Letter Alpha with Dasia and Varia Glyph for U+0345 Combining Greek Ypogegrammeni
Lowercase (Lower)
Simple Lowercase Mapping (slc) Glyph for U+1F83 Greek Small Letter Alpha with Dasia and Varia and Ypogegrammeni
Lowercase Mapping (lc) Glyph for U+1F83 Greek Small Letter Alpha with Dasia and Varia and Ypogegrammeni
Uppercase (Upper)
Simple Uppercase Mapping (suc) Glyph for U+1F8B Greek Capital Letter Alpha with Dasia and Varia and Prosgegrammeni
Uppercase Mapping (uc) Glyph for U+1F0B Greek Capital Letter Alpha with Dasia and Varia Glyph for U+0399 Greek Capital Letter Iota
Simple Titlecase Mapping (stc) Glyph for U+1F8B Greek Capital Letter Alpha with Dasia and Varia and Prosgegrammeni
Titlecase Mapping (tc) Glyph for U+1F8B Greek Capital Letter Alpha with Dasia and Varia and Prosgegrammeni
Case Folding (cf) Glyph for U+1F03 Greek Small Letter Alpha with Dasia and Varia Glyph for U+03B9 Greek Small Letter Iota
ASCII Hex Digit (AHex)
Alphabetic (Alpha)
Bidi Control (Bidi_C)
Bidi Mirrored (Bidi_M)
Composition Exclusion (CE)
Case Ignorable (CI)
Changes When Casefolded (CWCF)
Changes When Casemapped (CWCM)
Changes When NFKC Casefolded (CWKCF)
Changes When Lowercased (CWL)
Changes When Titlecased (CWT)
Changes When Uppercased (CWU)
Cased (Cased)
Full Composition Exclusion (Comp_Ex)
Default Ignorable Code Point (DI)
Dash (Dash)
Deprecated (Dep)
Diacritic (Dia)
Emoji Modifier Base (EBase)
Emoji Component (EComp)
Emoji Modifier (EMod)
Emoji Presentation (EPres)
Emoji (Emoji)
Extender (Ext)
Extended Pictographic (ExtPict)
FC NFKC Closure (FC_NFKC) Glyph for U+1F8B Greek Capital Letter Alpha with Dasia and Varia and Prosgegrammeni
Grapheme Cluster Break (GCB) Any
Grapheme Base (Gr_Base)
Grapheme Extend (Gr_Ext)
Grapheme Link (Gr_Link)
Hex Digit (Hex)
Hyphen (Hyphen)
ID Continue (IDC)
ID Start (IDS)
IDS Binary Operator (IDSB)
IDS Trinary Operator and (IDST)
IDSU (IDSU) 0
ID_Compat_Math_Continue (ID_Compat_Math_Continue) 0
ID_Compat_Math_Start (ID_Compat_Math_Start) 0
Ideographic (Ideo)
InCB (InCB) None
Indic Mantra Category (InMC)
Indic Positional Category (InPC) NA
Indic Syllabic Category (InSC) Other
Jamo Short Name (JSN)
Join Control (Join_C)
Logical Order Exception (LOE)
Math (Math)
Noncharacter Code Point (NChar)
NFC Quick Check (NFC_QC) Yes
NFD Quick Check (NFD_QC) No
NFKC Casefold (NFKC_CF) Glyph for U+1F03 Greek Small Letter Alpha with Dasia and Varia Glyph for U+03B9 Greek Small Letter Iota
NFKC Quick Check (NFKC_QC) Yes
NFKC_SCF (NFKC_SCF) Glyph for U+1F83 Greek Small Letter Alpha with Dasia and Varia and Ypogegrammeni
NFKD Quick Check (NFKD_QC) No
Other Alphabetic (OAlpha)
Other Default Ignorable Code Point (ODI)
Other Grapheme Extend (OGr_Ext)
Other ID Continue (OIDC)
Other ID Start (OIDS)
Other Lowercase (OLower)
Other Math (OMath)
Other Uppercase (OUpper)
Prepended Concatenation Mark (PCM)
Pattern Syntax (Pat_Syn)
Pattern White Space (Pat_WS)
Quotation Mark (QMark)
Regional Indicator (RI)
Radical (Radical)
Sentence Break (SB) Upper
Soft Dotted (SD)
Sentence Terminal (STerm)
Terminal Punctuation (Term)
Unified Ideograph (UIdeo)
Variation Selector (VS)
Word Break (WB) Alphabetic Letter
White Space (WSpace)
XID Continue (XIDC)
XID Start (XIDS)
Expands On NFC (XO_NFC)
Expands On NFD (XO_NFD)
Expands On NFKC (XO_NFKC)
Expands On NFKD (XO_NFKD)
Bidi Paired Bracket (bpb) Glyph for U+1F8B Greek Capital Letter Alpha with Dasia and Varia and Prosgegrammeni
Bidi Paired Bracket Type (bpt) None
East Asian Width (ea) neutral
Hangul Syllable Type (hst) Not Applicable
ISO 10646 Comment (isc)
Joining Group (jg) No_Joining_Group
Joining Type (jt) Non Joining
Line Break (lb) Alphabetic
Numeric Type (nt) none
Numeric Value (nv) not a number
Simple Case Folding (scf) Glyph for U+1F83 Greek Small Letter Alpha with Dasia and Varia and Ypogegrammeni
Script Extension (scx)
Vertical Orientation (vo) R