LATIN SMALL LETTER ALPHA

Property Value
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 ASCII digits
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