Unicode Character 'LATIN SMALL LETTER ALPHA' (U+0251) |
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LATIN SMALL LETTER ALPHA
LATIN SMALL LETTER ALPHA
| Unicode Data | |
|---|---|
| Name | LATIN SMALL LETTER ALPHA |
| Block | IPA Extensions |
| Category | Letter, Lowercase [Ll] |
| Script | Latin (Latn) |
| Combine | 0 |
| BIDI | Left-to-Right [L] |
| Old name | LATIN SMALL LETTER SCRIPT A |
| Index entries | a, latin small letter script ALPHA, LATIN SMALL LETTER LATIN SMALL LETTER ALPHA script a, latin small letter |
| Comments | Formal Alias: latin small letter script a (1.0) low back unrounded vowel the representative glyph appears like an allograph of Latin "a", but sometimes the character is rendered more like a Greek "α" uppercase is U+2C6D |
| See Also | greek small letter alpha U+03B1 |
| Version | Unicode 1.1.0 (June, 1993) |
| Encodings | |
|---|---|
| HTML Entity (decimal) | ɑ |
| HTML Entity (hex) | ɑ |
| How to type in Microsoft Windows | Alt +0251 |
| UTF-8 (hex) | 0xC9 0x91 (c991) |
| UTF-8 (binary) | 11001001:10010001 |
| UTF-16 (hex) | 0x0251 (0251) |
| UTF-16 (decimal) | 593 |
| UTF-32 (hex) | 0x00000251 (0251) |
| UTF-32 (decimal) | 593 |
| C/C++/Java source code | "\u0251" |
| Python source code | u"\u0251" |
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| Java Data | |
|---|---|
| string.toUpperCase() | Ɑ |
| string.toLowerCase() | ɑ |
| Character.UnicodeBlock | IPA_EXTENSIONS |
| 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 |
