Greek Small Letter Alpha vs Greek Theta Symbol

Greek Small Letter Alpha

03B1

Greek Theta Symbol

03D1

Property Comparison

Property	α 03B1	ϑ 03D1
Name	Greek Small Letter Alpha	Greek Theta Symbol
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	03D1
Unicode	U+03B1	U+03D1
HTML Decimal	α	ϑ
HTML Hex	α	ϑ
CSS	\03B1	\03D1
JavaScript	\u{3B1}	\u{3D1}
Python	\u03b1	\u03d1
UTF-8	ce b1	cf 91

How to Distinguish

Both Greek Small Letter Alpha and Greek Theta Symbol 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 Theta Symbol

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