Greek Capital Letter Alpha vs Roman Numeral Three
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Property Comparison
| Property | Α 0391 | Ⅲ 2162 |
|---|---|---|
| Name | Greek Capital Letter Alpha | Roman Numeral Three |
| Category | Greek Letters | Roman Numerals |
| Block | Greek and Coptic | Number Forms |
| Script | Grek | Latn |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter (Lu) | Letter Number (Nl) |
| Bidirectional | L | L |
Encoding Comparison
| Format | 0391 | 2162 |
|---|---|---|
| Unicode | U+0391 | U+2162 |
| HTML Decimal | Α | Ⅲ |
| HTML Hex | Α | Ⅲ |
| CSS | \0391 | \2162 |
| JavaScript | \u{391} | \u{2162} |
| Python | \u0391 | \u2162 |
| UTF-8 | ce 91 | e2 85 a2 |
How to Distinguish
Greek Capital Letter Alpha belongs to Greek Letters while Roman Numeral Three belongs to Roman Numerals. Despite visual similarity, they serve different purposes.
Tip: Paste the character into a hex editor or use
charCodeAt()
in JavaScript to check the actual codepoint.