What is the difference between Greek Small Letter Alpha and Latin Small Letter A?

Greek Small Letter Alpha is U+03B1 in the Greek and Coptic block. Latin Small Letter A is U+0061 in the Basic Latin block. They are distinct Unicode codepoints and may appear visually similar depending on the font.

What is the HTML entity for Greek Small Letter Alpha?

The HTML entity for Greek Small Letter Alpha (U+03B1) is α.

What is the HTML entity for Latin Small Letter A?

The HTML entity for Latin Small Letter A (U+0061) is a.

Are Greek Small Letter Alpha and Latin Small Letter A the same Unicode character?

No. Greek Small Letter Alpha is U+03B1 (decimal 945) and Latin Small Letter A is U+0061 (decimal 97). They are separate codepoints.

What are the UTF-8 encodings of Greek Small Letter Alpha and Latin Small Letter A?

Greek Small Letter Alpha (U+03B1) encodes as CE B1 in UTF-8. Latin Small Letter A (U+0061) encodes as 61 in UTF-8.

Greek Small Letter Alpha vs Latin Small Letter A

Compare two Unicode characters side by side — encodings, HTML entities, escape sequences, and Unicode properties. Useful for distinguishing visually similar characters like hyphens and dashes, quotation marks, or homoglyphs.

Greek Small Letter Alpha

U+03B1

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Latin Small Letter A

U+0061

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Property Comparison

Property	Greek Small Letter Alpha	Latin Small Letter A
Codepoint	`U+03B1`	`U+0061`
Decimal	`945`	`97`
HTML Entity	`α`	`a`
HTML Decimal	`α`	`a`
HTML Hex	`α`	`a`
UTF-8	`CE B1`	`61`
UTF-16	`03 B1`	`00 61`
UTF-32	`000003B1`	`00000061`
CSS Escape	`\3B1`	`\61`
JS Escape	`\u03B1`	`\u0061`
Python Escape	`\u03B1`	`\u0061`
URL Encoded	`%CE%B1`	`a`
Category	`Lowercase Letter (Ll)`	`Lowercase Letter (Ll)`
Block	`Greek and Coptic`	`Basic Latin`
Script	`Greek`	`Latin`
Bidi Class	`L`	`L`
Unicode Version	`1.1`	`1.1`

Rows highlighted in amber differ between the two characters.

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