U+0391 Greek Capital Letter Alpha
U+0391 was added in Unicode version 1.1 in 1993. It belongs to the block
This character is a Uppercase Letter and is mainly used in the Greek script. Its lowercase variant is
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+0391 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:
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 | 913 |
UTF-8 | CE 91 |
UTF-16 | 03 91 |
UTF-32 | 00 00 03 91 |
URL-Quoted | %CE%91 |
HTML hex reference | Α |
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | Α |
HTML named entity | Α |
Encoding: EUC-KR (hex bytes) | A5 C1 |
Encoding: ISO-8859-7 (hex bytes) | C1 |
Encoding: JIS0208 (hex bytes) | A6 A1 |
Encoding: WINDOWS-1253 (hex bytes) | C1 |
LATEX | \Alpha |
Adobe Glyph List | Alpha |
digraph | A* |
Related Characters
Greek Capital Letter Alpha with TonosGlyph for U+0386 Greek Small Letter AlphaGlyph for U+03B1 Greek Capital Letter Alpha with PsiliGlyph for U+1F08 Greek Capital Letter Alpha with DasiaGlyph for U+1F09 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 VrachyGlyph for U+1FB8 Greek Capital Letter Alpha with MacronGlyph for U+1FB9 Greek Capital Letter Alpha with VariaGlyph for U+1FBA Greek Capital Letter Alpha with ProsgegrammeniGlyph for U+1FBC Mathematical Bold Capital AlphaGlyph for U+1D6A8 Mathematical Italic Capital AlphaGlyph for U+1D6E2 Mathematical Bold Italic Capital AlphaGlyph for U+1D71C Mathematical Sans-Serif Bold Capital AlphaGlyph for U+1D756 Mathematical Sans-Serif Bold Italic Capital AlphaGlyph for U+1D790
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Complete Record
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1.1 (1993) | |
GREEK CAPITAL LETTER ALPHA | |
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Greek and Coptic | |
Uppercase Letter | |
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✘ | |
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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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Yes | |
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Upper | |
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✘ | |
✘ | |
Alphabetic Letter | |
✘ | |
✔ | |
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✘ | |
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ambiguous | |
Not Applicable | |
— | |
No_Joining_Group | |
Non Joining | |
Alphabetic | |
none | |
not a number | |
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R |