U+03B1 Greek Small Letter Alpha
U+03B1 was added to Unicode in version 1.1 (1993). It belongs to the block
This character is a Lowercase Letter and is mainly used in the Greek script. It is related to its uppercase variant
The glyph is not a composition. It has a Ambiguous East Asian Width. In bidirectional context it acts as Left To Right and is not mirrored. The glyph can, under circumstances, be confused with 1 other glyphs. In text U+03B1 behaves as Alphabetic regarding line breaks. It has type Lower for sentence and Alphabetic Letter for word breaks. The Grapheme Cluster Break is Any.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
Alpha (uppercase Α, lowercase α; Ancient Greek: ἄλφα, álpha, or Greek: άλφα, romanized: álfa) is the first letter of the Greek alphabet. In the system of Greek numerals, it has a value of one. Alpha is derived from the Phoenician letter aleph , which is the West Semitic word for "ox". Letters that arose from alpha include the Latin letter A and the Cyrillic letter А.
Representations
System | Representation |
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Nº | 945 |
UTF-8 | CE B1 |
UTF-16 | 03 B1 |
UTF-32 | 00 00 03 B1 |
URL-Quoted | %CE%B1 |
HTML hex reference | α |
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | α |
HTML named entity | α |
Encoding: EUC-KR (hex bytes) | A5 E1 |
Encoding: ISO-8859-7 (hex bytes) | E1 |
Encoding: JIS0208 (hex bytes) | A6 C1 |
Encoding: WINDOWS-1253 (hex bytes) | E1 |
LATEX | \alpha |
Adobe Glyph List | alpha |
digraph | a* |
Related Characters
Greek Capital Letter AlphaGlyph for U+0391 Greek Small Letter Alpha with TonosGlyph for U+03AC Greek Small Letter Alpha with PsiliGlyph for U+1F00 Greek Small Letter Alpha with DasiaGlyph for U+1F01 Greek Small Letter Alpha with VariaGlyph for U+1F70 Greek Small Letter Alpha with VrachyGlyph for U+1FB0 Greek Small Letter Alpha with MacronGlyph for U+1FB1 Greek Small Letter Alpha with YpogegrammeniGlyph for U+1FB3 Greek Small Letter Alpha with PerispomeniGlyph for U+1FB6 Greek Small Letter Alpha with Perispomeni and YpogegrammeniGlyph for U+1FB7 Greek Capital Letter Alpha with ProsgegrammeniGlyph for U+1FBC Mathematical Bold Capital AlphaGlyph for U+1D6A8 Mathematical Bold Small AlphaGlyph for U+1D6C2 Mathematical Italic Capital AlphaGlyph for U+1D6E2 Mathematical Italic Small AlphaGlyph for U+1D6FC Mathematical Bold Italic Capital AlphaGlyph for U+1D71C Mathematical Bold Italic Small AlphaGlyph for U+1D736 Mathematical Sans-Serif Bold Capital AlphaGlyph for U+1D756 Mathematical Sans-Serif Bold Small AlphaGlyph for U+1D770 Mathematical Sans-Serif Bold Italic Capital AlphaGlyph for U+1D790 Mathematical Sans-Serif Bold Italic Small AlphaGlyph for U+1D7AA
Confusables
Elsewhere
Complete Record
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1.1 (1993) | |
GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA | |
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Greek and Coptic | |
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Left To Right | |
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Any | |
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0 | |
0 | |
0 | |
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None | |
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NA | |
Other | |
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✘ | |
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Yes | |
Yes | |
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Lower | |
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Alphabetic Letter | |
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Ambiguous | |
Not Applicable | |
— | |
No_Joining_Group | |
Non Joining | |
Alphabetic | |
None | |
not a number | |
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R |