U+0251 Latin Small Letter Alpha
U+0251 was added to Unicode in version 1.1 (1993). It belongs to the block IPA Extensions in the Basic Multilingual Plane.
This character is a Lowercase Letter and is mainly used in the Latin script. It is related to its uppercase variant Latin Capital Letter Alpha and its titlecase variant Latin Capital Letter Alpha. The character is also known as latin small letter script a (1.0).
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+0251 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:
Latin alpha (majuscule: Ɑ, minuscule: ɑ) or script a is a letter of the Latin alphabet based on one lowercase form of a, or on the Greek lowercase alpha (α).
Representations
| System | Representation |
|---|---|
| Nº | 593 |
| UTF-8 | C9 91 |
| UTF-16 | 02 51 |
| UTF-32 | 00 00 02 51 |
| URL-Quoted | %C9%91 |
| HTML hex reference | ɑ |
| Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | É‘ |
| alias | latin small letter script a (1.0) |
| AGL: Latin-4 | uni0251 |
| AGL: Latin-5 | uni0251 |
| Adobe Glyph List | ascript |
Related Characters
Confusables
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Complete Record
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| 1.1 (1993) | |
| LATIN SMALL LETTER ALPHA | |
| LATIN SMALL LETTER SCRIPT A | |
| IPA Extensions | |
| Lowercase Letter | |
| Latin | |
| Left To Right | |
| Not Reordered | |
| None | |
| Latin Small Letter Alpha | |
| ✔ | |
| Latin Small Letter Alpha | |
| Latin Small Letter Alpha | |
| ✘ | |
| Latin Capital Letter Alpha | |
| Latin Capital Letter Alpha | |
| Latin Capital Letter Alpha | |
| Latin Capital Letter Alpha | |
| Latin Small Letter Alpha | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Latin Small Letter Alpha | |
| Any | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| — | |
| NA | |
| Other | |
| — | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Yes | |
| Yes | |
| Latin Small Letter Alpha | |
| Yes | |
| Yes | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Lower | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Alphabetic Letter | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Latin Small Letter Alpha | |
| None | |
| Ambiguous | |
| Not Applicable | |
| — | |
| No_Joining_Group | |
| Non Joining | |
| Alphabetic | |
| None | |
| not a number | |
| Latin Small Letter Alpha | |
| R |