GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA
- Category
- Ll — Lowercase Letter
- Block
- Greek and Coptic
- Script
- Greek
- Plane
- Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP)
- Decimal
- 945
Encoding Table
This table shows the exact bytes used to represent GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA in each encoding. Unicode encodings (UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32) support every character; legacy encodings only cover a limited character set and show "not supported" when a character falls outside their range.
| Encoding | Bytes (Hex) | Bytes (Decimal) | Byte count |
|---|---|---|---|
| UTF-8 | CE B1 | 206 177 | 2 |
| UTF-16 LE | B1 03 | 177 3 | 2 |
| UTF-16 BE | 03 B1 | 3 177 | 2 |
| UTF-32 LE | B1 03 00 00 | 177 3 0 0 | 4 |
| UTF-32 BE | 00 00 03 B1 | 0 0 3 177 | 4 |
| ASCII | not supported | ||
| Latin-1 (ISO-8859-1) | not supported | ||
| Windows-1252 | not supported | ||
| ISO-8859-2 (Latin-2) | not supported | ||
| ISO-8859-5 (Cyrillic) | not supported | ||
| KOI8-R | not supported | ||
| Shift-JIS | 83 BF | 131 191 | 2 |
| EUC-JP | A6 C1 | 166 193 | 2 |
| GBK | A6 C1 | 166 193 | 2 |
| Big5 | A3 5C | 163 92 | 2 |
Escape Sequences
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View U+03B1 on CharLookup.com ↗UTF-8 Binary Breakdown
UTF-8 encodes this character as 2 bytes. The leading 110 prefix on byte 1 signals a 2-byte sequence. Bytes 2+ begin with 10 to mark them as continuation bytes.