Unicode Character "Α" U+0391 Greek Capital Letter Alpha
Unicode Version 15.1
Α
Summary
The unicode character "Α" at code point U+0391 is Greek Capital Letter Alpha. It is a character in the Greek and Coptic block and is part of the Greek script. The character is an uppercase letter. The UTF-8 encoding of "Α" is 0xCE 0x91 and the UTF-16 encoding is 0x0391.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0391 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Greek Capital Letter Alpha |
| Block | Greek and Coptic |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Entity | Α |
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Α |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Α |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xCE 0x91 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0391 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000391 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0391 |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Alphabetic |
| East Asian Width | Ambiguous |
| Uppercase | Yes |
| Simple Lowercase Code Point | "α" U+03B1 Greek Small Letter Alpha |
| Lowercase Code Point | "α" U+03B1 Greek Small Letter Alpha |
| Simple Case Folding | "α" U+03B1 Greek Small Letter Alpha |
| Case Folding | "α" U+03B1 Greek Small Letter Alpha |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "α" U+03B1 Greek Small Letter Alpha |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "α" U+03B1 Greek Small Letter Alpha |
| Script | Greek |
| Script Extensions | Greek |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| ID Start | Yes |
| XID Start | Yes |
| ID Continue | Yes |
| XID Continue | Yes |
| Alphabetic | Yes |
| Vertical Orientation | Rotated |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Alphabetic letter |
| Sentence Break | Upper |