Greek Capital Letter Xi vs Greek Small Letter Alpha

Greek Capital Letter Xi

039E

Greek Small Letter Alpha

03B1

Property Comparison

Property	Ξ 039E	α 03B1
Name	Greek Capital Letter Xi	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	039E	03B1
Unicode	U+039E	U+03B1
HTML Decimal	Ξ	α
HTML Hex	Ξ	α
CSS	\039E	\03B1
JavaScript	\u{39E}	\u{3B1}
Python	\u039e	\u03b1
UTF-8	ce 9e	ce b1

How to Distinguish

Both Greek Capital Letter Xi 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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