Unicode Character 'GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA' (U+03B1)

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GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA

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GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA

Unicode Data
Name GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA
Block Greek and Coptic
Category Letter, Lowercase [Ll]
Script Greek (Grek)
Combine 0
BIDI Left-to-Right [L]
Index entries Greek Small Letters
Small Letters, Greek
See Also latin small letter alpha U+0251
proportional to U+221D
Version Unicode 1.1.0 (June, 1993)
Encodings
HTML Entity (decimal) α
HTML Entity (hex) α
HTML Entity (named) α
How to type in Microsoft Windows Alt +3B1
Alt 224
UTF-8 (hex) 0xCE 0xB1 (ceb1)
UTF-8 (binary) 11001110:10110001
UTF-16 (hex) 0x03B1 (03b1)
UTF-16 (decimal) 945
UTF-32 (hex) 0x000003B1 (3b1)
UTF-32 (decimal) 945
C/C++/Java source code "\u03B1"
Python source code u"\u03B1"
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Java Data
string.toUpperCase() Α
string.toLowerCase() α
Character.UnicodeBlock GREEK
Character.charCount() 1
Character.getDirectionality() DIRECTIONALITY_LEFT_TO_RIGHT [0]
Character.getNumericValue() -1
Character.getType() 2
Character.isDefined() Yes
Character.isDigit() No
Character.isIdentifierIgnorable() No
Character.isISOControl() No
Character.isJavaIdentifierPart() Yes
Character.isJavaIdentifierStart() Yes
Character.isLetter() Yes
Character.isLetterOrDigit() Yes
Character.isLowerCase() Yes
Character.isMirrored() No
Character.isSpaceChar() No
Character.isSupplementaryCodePoint() No
Character.isTitleCase() No
Character.isUnicodeIdentifierPart() Yes
Character.isUnicodeIdentifierStart() Yes
Character.isUpperCase() No
Character.isValidCodePoint() Yes
Character.isWhitespace() No