Greek Capital Letter Alpha

Group: World scripts

Keywords

scripts

About this character

Greek Capital Letter Alpha belongs to the World scripts group and is encoded at U+0391. 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+0391
Hex: 0391
Decimal: 913
HTML: Α
CSS: \391
JavaScript: \u0391
Python: \u0391
UTF-8: CE 91

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

Greek Capital Letter Heta U+0370 Similar
Greek Small Letter Heta U+0371 Similar
Greek Capital Letter Archaic Sampi U+0372 Similar
Greek Small Letter Archaic Sampi U+0373 Similar
Greek Numeral Sign U+0374 Similar
Greek Lower Numeral Sign U+0375 Similar
Greek Capital Letter Pamphylian Digamma U+0376 Similar
Greek Small Letter Pamphylian Digamma U+0377 Similar
Greek Ypogegrammeni U+037A Similar
Greek Small Reversed Lunate Sigma Symbol U+037B Similar
Greek Small Dotted Lunate Sigma Symbol U+037C Similar
Greek Small Reversed Dotted Lunate Sigma Symbol U+037D Similar
Greek Question Mark U+037E Similar
Greek Capital Letter Yot U+037F Similar
Greek Tonos U+0384 Similar
Greek Dialytika Tonos U+0385 Similar
Greek Capital Letter Alpha With Tonos U+0386 Similar
Greek Ano Teleia U+0387 Similar
Greek Capital Letter Epsilon With Tonos U+0388 Similar
Greek Capital Letter Eta With Tonos U+0389 Similar
Greek Capital Letter Iota With Tonos U+038A Similar
Greek Capital Letter Omicron With Tonos U+038C Similar
Greek Capital Letter Upsilon With Tonos U+038E Similar
Greek Capital Letter Omega With Tonos U+038F Similar

Questions

Why does this emoji look different on my phone?

Unicode standardises the meaning of a character, not its drawing. Apple, Google, Microsoft and Samsung each ship their own artwork, so the same code point changes shape between devices.

Does copying work everywhere?

The character is copied as plain text, so it pastes into any app that accepts text. If the receiving app has no font for it, you will see an empty box instead.