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Glyph for U+03B1
Source: Noto Sans

U+03B1 Greek Small Letter Alpha

U+03B1 was added to Unicode in version 1.1 (1993). It belongs to the block U+0370 to U+03FF Greek and Coptic in the U+0000 to U+FFFF Basic Multilingual Plane.

This character is a Lowercase Letter and is mainly used in the Greek script. It is related to its uppercase variant Glyph for U+0391 Greek Capital Letter Alpha and its titlecase variant Glyph for U+0391 Greek Capital Letter Alpha.

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
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*

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Complete Record

Property Value
Age 1.1 (1993)
Unicode Name GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA
Unicode 1 Name
Block Greek and Coptic
General Category Lowercase Letter
Script Greek
Bidirectional Category Left To Right
Combining Class Not Reordered
Decomposition Type None
Decomposition Mapping Glyph for U+03B1 Greek Small Letter Alpha
Lowercase
Simple Lowercase Mapping Glyph for U+03B1 Greek Small Letter Alpha
Lowercase Mapping Glyph for U+03B1 Greek Small Letter Alpha
Uppercase
Simple Uppercase Mapping Glyph for U+0391 Greek Capital Letter Alpha
Uppercase Mapping Glyph for U+0391 Greek Capital Letter Alpha
Simple Titlecase Mapping Glyph for U+0391 Greek Capital Letter Alpha
Titlecase Mapping Glyph for U+0391 Greek Capital Letter Alpha
Case Folding Glyph for U+03B1 Greek Small Letter Alpha
ASCII Hex Digit
Alphabetic
Bidi Control
Bidi Mirrored
Composition Exclusion
Case Ignorable
Changes When Casefolded
Changes When Casemapped
Changes When NFKC Casefolded
Changes When Lowercased
Changes When Titlecased
Changes When Uppercased
Cased
Full Composition Exclusion
Default Ignorable Code Point
Dash
Deprecated
Diacritic
Emoji Modifier Base
Emoji Component
Emoji Modifier
Emoji Presentation
Emoji
Extender
Extended Pictographic
FC NFKC Closure Glyph for U+03B1 Greek Small Letter Alpha
Grapheme Cluster Break Any
Grapheme Base
Grapheme Extend
Grapheme Link
Hex Digit
Hyphen
ID Continue
ID Start
IDS Binary Operator
IDS Trinary Operator and
IDSU 0
ID_Compat_Math_Continue 0
ID_Compat_Math_Start 0
Ideographic
InCB None
Indic Mantra Category
Indic Positional Category NA
Indic Syllabic Category Other
Jamo Short Name
Join Control
Logical Order Exception
Math
Noncharacter Code Point
NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Casefold Glyph for U+03B1 Greek Small Letter Alpha
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKC_SCF Glyph for U+03B1 Greek Small Letter Alpha
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Other Alphabetic
Other Default Ignorable Code Point
Other Grapheme Extend
Other ID Continue
Other ID Start
Other Lowercase
Other Math
Other Uppercase
Prepended Concatenation Mark
Pattern Syntax
Pattern White Space
Quotation Mark
Regional Indicator
Radical
Sentence Break Lower
Soft Dotted
Sentence Terminal
Terminal Punctuation
Unified Ideograph
Variation Selector
Word Break Alphabetic Letter
White Space
XID Continue
XID Start
Expands On NFC
Expands On NFD
Expands On NFKC
Expands On NFKD
Bidi Paired Bracket Glyph for U+03B1 Greek Small Letter Alpha
Bidi Paired Bracket Type None
East Asian Width Ambiguous
Hangul Syllable Type Not Applicable
ISO 10646 Comment
Joining Group No_Joining_Group
Joining Type Non Joining
Line Break Alphabetic
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value not a number
Simple Case Folding Glyph for U+03B1 Greek Small Letter Alpha
Script Extension
Vertical Orientation R