Greek Capital Letter Alpha Α
Symbol Meaning
Greek Capital Letter Alpha. Greek and Coptic.
The symbol “Greek Capital Letter Alpha” is included in the “Letters” subblock of the “Greek and Coptic” block and was approved as part of Unicode version 1.1 in 1993.
| Unicode Name | Greek Capital Letter Alpha |
| Unicode Number | |
| HTML Code | |
| CSS Code | |
| Entity | Α |
| Plane | 0: Basic Multilingual Plane |
| Unicode Block | Greek and Coptic |
| Unicode Subblock | Letters |
| Lowercase | α |
| Unicode Version | 1.1 (1993) |
| Type of paired mirror bracket (bidi) | None |
| Composition Exclusion | No |
| Case change | 03B1 |
| Simple case change | 03B1 |
| Alphabetic | + |
| Uppercase | + |
| Cased | + |
| Changes_When_Lowercased | + |
| Changes_When_Casefolded | + |
| Changes_When_Casemapped | + |
| ID_Start | + |
| ID_Continue | + |
| XID_Start | + |
| XID_Continue | + |
| Grapheme_Base | + |
| scripts | Greek |
| Encoding | hex | dec (bytes) | dec | binary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UTF-8 | CE 91 | 206 145 | 52881 | 11001110 10010001 |
| UTF-16BE | 03 91 | 3 145 | 913 | 00000011 10010001 |
| UTF-16LE | 91 03 | 145 3 | 37123 | 10010001 00000011 |
| UTF-32BE | 00 00 03 91 | 0 0 3 145 | 913 | 00000000 00000000 00000011 10010001 |
| UTF-32LE | 91 03 00 00 | 145 3 0 0 | 2432892928 | 10010001 00000011 00000000 00000000 |