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Greek Small Letter Alpha vs Greek Small Letter Epsilon

α
Greek Small Letter Alpha
03B1
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ε
Greek Small Letter Epsilon
03B5
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VS

Property Comparison

Property α 03B1 ε 03B5
Name Greek Small Letter Alpha Greek Small Letter Epsilon
Category Greek Letters Greek Letters
Block Greek and Coptic Greek and Coptic
Script Grek Grek
General Category Lowercase Letter (Ll) Lowercase Letter (Ll)
Bidirectional L L

Encoding Comparison

Format 03B1 03B5
Unicode U+03B1 U+03B5
HTML Decimal α ε
HTML Hex α ε
CSS \03B1 \03B5
JavaScript \u{3B1} \u{3B5}
Python \u03b1 \u03b5
UTF-8 ce b1 ce b5

How to Distinguish

Both Greek Small Letter Alpha and Greek Small Letter Epsilon 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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