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Greek Small Letter Alpha vs Greek Small Letter Sho

α
Greek Small Letter Alpha
03B1
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Greek Small Letter Sho
03F8
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VS

Property Comparison

Property α 03B1 ϸ 03F8
Name Greek Small Letter Alpha Greek Small Letter Sho
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 03F8
Unicode U+03B1 U+03F8
HTML Decimal α ϸ
HTML Hex α ϸ
CSS \03B1 \03F8
JavaScript \u{3B1} \u{3F8}
Python \u03b1 \u03f8
UTF-8 ce b1 cf b8

How to Distinguish

Both Greek Small Letter Alpha and Greek Small Letter Sho 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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