Greek Capital Letter Alpha With Tonos
Part of Greek Letters
Greek Capital Letter Alpha With Tonos has no standard Windows Alt code. Copy the character directly, or use its HTML entity or Unicode value instead.
- Alt code
- None
- HTML entity
- Ά
- Unicode
- U+0386
About this symbol
The single accent on Ά is the tonos, from the monotonic system Greece adopted in 1982. It replaced the polytonic system of three accents and two breathing marks that Greek had used since ancient times, marking only the stressed syllable.
Unicode facts
- Official name
- GREEK CAPITAL LETTER ALPHA WITH TONOS
- Type
- Uppercase letter
- Unicode block
- Greek and Coptic
- Unicode group
- Letter
- Added in
- Unicode 1.1 (1993)
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