LATIN SMALL LETTER ALPHA

Codepoint

U+0251

Literal Character

ɑ

Name

LATIN SMALL LETTER ALPHA

Sketch

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Aliases

latin small letter script a (1.0)

Control Character

no

Block

IPA Extensions

Subblock

IPA extensions

UTF-8 byte encoding

c9 91

UTF-16 byte encoding

02 51 (big endian)

HTML Entity

ɑ

Perl string literal

\x{251}

Comments

• 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 2C6D

See Also

U+03B1: greek small letter alpha

Wikipedia

Latin alpha (en)

Used In

	Name	Composed Of
ᵅ	MODIFIER LETTER SMALL ALPHA	<super> LATIN SMALL LETTER ALPHA (U+0251)