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U+03B1 · GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA

Greek Small Letter Alpha

  • CodepointU+03B1
  • NameGREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA
  • Decimal945
  • BlockGreek and Coptic (U+0370–U+03FF)
  • Plane0 — Basic Multilingual Plane
  • ScriptGreek
  • 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-8CE B12 bytes
UTF-1603B11 code unit
UTF-32000003B14 bytes
HTML namedαnamed character reference
HTML decimalα
HTML hexα
CSS\3B1in content: "…"
JavaScript\u03B1
JSON\u03B1
Python\u03B1
Python\N{GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA}by name
Java / C#\u03B1
C / C++\u03B1universal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{3B1}
Go\u03B1
Ruby\u03B1
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(945)
URL-encoded%CE%B1percent-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 α

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Nearby in Greek and Coptic

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