U+03AC GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA WITH TONOS

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Decimal / Nº
940
General Category
Block
Script
Bidi Category
Left-To-Right
East Asian Width
no designated width
Combining Class
Not Reordered
Decomposition
a canonical composition

Character Details

The Unicode character U+03AC, officially named GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA WITH TONOS, was introduced in Unicode version 1.1. It is part of the Greek block, which belongs to the Basic Multilingual plane. Previously, it was also referred to as GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA TONOS.

Categorized technically as a Lowercase Letter, this character typically falls under the Greek script. In terms of text layout and rendering, the glyph is a canonical composition and has no designated width in East Asian typography. When placed in bidirectional text, it behaves as an Left-To-Right character. Its visual representation remains not mirrored regardless of the reading direction.

Representations & Encodings

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940 Copied!
UTF-8 CE AC Copied!
UTF-16 03 AC Copied!
UTF-32 00 00 03 AC Copied!
URL-Quoted %CE%AC Copied!
HTML hex reference ά Copied!
RFC 5137 \u'03AC' Copied!
Bash and Zsh (inside echo -e) \u03AC Copied!
C and C++ \u03ac Copied!
C# \u03ac Copied!
CSS \0003AC Copied!
Excel =UNICHAR(940) Copied!
Go \u03ac Copied!
JavaScript \u03AC Copied!
Modern JavaScript (since ES6) \u{03ac} Copied!
JSON \u03AC Copied!
Java \u03AC Copied!
Lua \u{03AC} Copied!
Matlab char(940) Copied!
Perl \x{03AC} Copied!
PHP \u{03ac} Copied!
PostgreSQL U&'\03AC' Copied!
PowerShell `u{03AC} Copied!
Python \u03ac Copied!
Ruby \u{03ac} Copied!
Rust \u{03ac} Copied!