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