U+0251 Latin Small Letter Alpha
U+0251 was added in Unicode version 1.1 in 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. Its uppercase variant is Latin Capital Letter Alpha and its titlecase variant is Latin Capital Letter Alpha. The character is also known as latin small letter script a (1.0).
The glyph is not a composition. Its width in East Asian texts is determined by its context. It can be displayed wide or narrow. In bidirectional text it is written from left to right. When changing direction it is not mirrored. The word that U+0251 forms with similar adjacent characters prevents a line break inside it. The glyph can be confused with one other glyph.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
Latin alpha (majuscule: Ɑ, minuscule: ɑ), script a, or single-story 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) |
| Encoding: BIG5HKSCS (hex bytes) | 88 6B |
| Encoding: EUC_JIS_2004 (hex bytes) | AB B9 |
| Encoding: EUC_JISX0213 (hex bytes) | AB B9 |
| Encoding: GBK (hex bytes) | A8 BB |
| Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes) | A8 BB |
| Encoding: ISO2022_JP_2004 (hex bytes) | 1B 24 28 51 2B 39 1B 28 42 |
| Encoding: ISO2022_JP_3 (hex bytes) | 1B 24 28 4F 2B 39 1B 28 42 |
| Encoding: SHIFT_JIS_2004 (hex bytes) | 86 58 |
| Encoding: SHIFT_JISX0213 (hex bytes) | 86 58 |
| AGL: Latin-4 | uni0251 |
| AGL: Latin-5 | uni0251 |
| Adobe Glyph List | ascript |
Related Characters
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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 | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| ✘ | |
| None | |
| — | |
| NA | |
| Other | |
| — | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Yes | |
| Yes | |
| Latin Small Letter Alpha | |
| Yes | |
| Latin Small Letter Alpha | |
| 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 |