α
Greek Small Letter Alpha
03B1 · Greek and Coptic · Grek
Encodings
| Unicode | U+03B1 | |
| HTML Decimal | α | |
| HTML Hex | α | |
| CSS | \03B1 | |
| JavaScript | \u{3B1} | |
| Python | \u03b1 | |
| Java | \u03B1 | |
| UTF-8 | ce b1 | |
| UTF-16 | 03 b1 | |
| URL Encoded | %CE%B1 |
Unicode Properties
Block
Greek and Coptic
Script
Grek
Category
Lowercase Letter (Ll)
Bidirectional
L
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