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U+0251 · LATIN SMALL LETTER ALPHA

Latin Small Letter Alpha

  • CodepointU+0251
  • NameLATIN SMALL LETTER ALPHA
  • Decimal593
  • BlockIPA Extensions (U+0250–U+02AF)
  • Plane0 — Basic Multilingual Plane
  • ScriptLatin
  • CategoryLl — Lowercase Letter
  • Unicode version1.1 (1993)
  • Bidi classL — Left-to-Right
  • Combining class0
  • East Asian widthA — Ambiguous
  • MirroredNo
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Encodings & escapes

UTF-8 encoder →
UTF-8C9 912 bytes
UTF-1602511 code unit
UTF-32000002514 bytes
HTML decimalɑ
HTML hexɑ
CSS\251in content: "…"
JavaScript\u0251
JSON\u0251
Python\u0251
Python\N{LATIN SMALL LETTER ALPHA}by name
Java / C#\u0251
C / C++\u0251universal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{251}
Go\u0251
Ruby\u0251
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(593)
URL-encoded%C9%91percent-encoded UTF-8
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Looks similar

Characters that Unicode’s security data (UTS #39 confusables) lists as visually confusable with this one. Useful for spotting lookalike spoofing in URLs and usernames.

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Characters built on ɑ

U+1D45ᵅModifier Letter Small Alpha
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Nearby in IPA Extensions

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