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Greek Capital Letter Omega vs Greek Small Letter Alpha

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Greek Capital Letter Omega
03A9
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α
Greek Small Letter Alpha
03B1
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Property Comparison

Property Ω 03A9 α 03B1
Name Greek Capital Letter Omega 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 03A9 03B1
Unicode U+03A9 U+03B1
HTML Decimal Ω α
HTML Hex Ω α
CSS \03A9 \03B1
JavaScript \u{3A9} \u{3B1}
Python \u03a9 \u03b1
UTF-8 ce a9 ce b1

How to Distinguish

Both Greek Capital Letter Omega 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.

Tip: Paste the character into a hex editor or use charCodeAt() in JavaScript to check the actual codepoint.

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