Greek Small Letter Alpha vs Greek Small Letter Sigma

Greek Small Letter Alpha

03B1

Greek Small Letter Sigma

03C3

Property Comparison

Property	α 03B1	σ 03C3
Name	Greek Small Letter Alpha	Greek Small Letter Sigma
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	03C3
Unicode	U+03B1	U+03C3
HTML Decimal	α	σ
HTML Hex	α	σ
CSS	\03B1	\03C3
JavaScript	\u{3B1}	\u{3C3}
Python	\u03b1	\u03c3
UTF-8	ce b1	cf 83

How to Distinguish

Both Greek Small Letter Alpha and Greek Small Letter Sigma 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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Greek Small Letter Alpha vs Greek Small Letter Sigma

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