U+03B1 Greek Small Letter Alpha
U+03B1 was added in Unicode version 1.1 in 1993. It belongs to the block Greek and Coptic in the Basic Multilingual Plane.
This character is a Lowercase Letter and is mainly used in the Greek script. Its uppercase variant is Greek Capital Letter Alpha and its titlecase variant is Greek Capital Letter Alpha.
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+03B1 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 |
|---|---|
| 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 Alpha
- Greek Small Letter Alpha with Tonos
- Greek Small Letter Alpha with Psili
- Greek Small Letter Alpha with Dasia
- Greek Small Letter Alpha with Varia
- Greek Small Letter Alpha with Vrachy
- Greek Small Letter Alpha with Macron
- Greek Small Letter Alpha with Ypogegrammeni
- Greek Small Letter Alpha with Perispomeni
- Greek Small Letter Alpha with Perispomeni and Ypogegrammeni
- Greek Capital Letter Alpha with Prosgegrammeni
- Mathematical Bold Capital Alpha
- Mathematical Bold Small Alpha
- Mathematical Italic Capital Alpha
- Mathematical Italic Small Alpha
- Mathematical Bold Italic Capital Alpha
- Mathematical Bold Italic Small Alpha
- Mathematical Sans-Serif Bold Capital Alpha
- Mathematical Sans-Serif Bold Small Alpha
- Mathematical Sans-Serif Bold Italic Capital Alpha
- Mathematical Sans-Serif Bold Italic Small Alpha
Confusables
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Complete Record
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| 1.1 (1993) | |
| GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA | |
| — | |
| Greek and Coptic | |
| Lowercase Letter | |
| Greek | |
| Left To Right | |
| Not Reordered | |
| none | |
| Greek Small Letter Alpha | |
| ✔ | |
| Greek Small Letter Alpha | |
| Greek Small Letter Alpha | |
| ✘ | |
| Greek Capital Letter Alpha | |
| Greek Capital Letter Alpha | |
| Greek Capital Letter Alpha | |
| Greek Capital Letter Alpha | |
| Greek Small Letter Alpha | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Greek Small Letter Alpha | |
| Any | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| ✘ | |
| None | |
| — | |
| NA | |
| Other | |
| — | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Yes | |
| Yes | |
| Greek Small Letter Alpha | |
| Yes | |
| Greek Small Letter Alpha | |
| Yes | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Lower | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Alphabetic Letter | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Greek Small Letter Alpha | |
| None | |
| ambiguous | |
| Not Applicable | |
| — | |
| No_Joining_Group | |
| Non Joining | |
| Alphabetic | |
| none | |
| not a number | |
| Greek Small Letter Alpha | |
| R |