Latin Small Letter Alpha

Group: Letterlike

Keywords

letterlike

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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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.