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Latin Small Letter Alpha

Group: Letterlike

Keywords

About this character

Latin Small Letter Alpha belongs to the Letterlike group and is encoded at U+0251. It was added in Unicode 0.0.

Shortcode

Chat apps such as Slack, Discord and GitHub accept this shortcode instead of the character itself.

Technical codes

Code point
U+0251
Hex
0251
Decimal
593
HTML
ɑ
CSS
\251
JavaScript
\u0251
Python
\u0251
UTF-8
C9 91

The same character is drawn differently by each operating system and font.

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