Greek Capital Letter Archaic Sampi vs Greek Small Letter Alpha
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Property Comparison
| Property | Ͳ 0372 | α 03B1 |
|---|---|---|
| Name | Greek Capital Letter Archaic Sampi | Greek Small Letter Alpha |
| Category | Greek Letters | Greek Letters |
| Block | Greek and Coptic | Greek and Coptic |
| Script | Grek | Grek |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter (Lu) | Lowercase Letter (Ll) |
| Bidirectional | L | L |
Encoding Comparison
| Format | 0372 | 03B1 |
|---|---|---|
| Unicode | U+0372 | U+03B1 |
| HTML Decimal | Ͳ | α |
| HTML Hex | Ͳ | α |
| CSS | \0372 | \03B1 |
| JavaScript | \u{372} | \u{3B1} |
| Python | \u0372 | \u03b1 |
| UTF-8 | cd b2 | ce b1 |
How to Distinguish
Both Greek Capital Letter Archaic Sampi and Greek Small Letter Alpha belong to the Greek Letters category and the Greek and Coptic block. Compare their codepoints and visual rendering to distinguish them.
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