U+1F85 Greek Small Letter Alpha with Dasia and Oxia and Ypogegrammeni

U+1F85 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 Lowercase Letter and is mainly used in the Greek script. Its uppercase variant is Greek Capital Letter Alpha with Dasia and Oxia Greek Capital Letter Iota and its titlecase variant is Greek Capital Letter Alpha with Dasia and Oxia and Prosgegrammeni.

The glyph is a canonical composition of the glyphs Greek Small Letter Alpha with Dasia and Oxia, 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+1F85 forms with similar adjacent characters prevents a line break inside it.