Unicode Character "𝛼" (U+1D6FC)

The character 𝛼 (Mathematical Italic Small Alpha) is represented by the Unicode codepoint U+1D6FC. It is encoded in the Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols block, which belongs to the Supplementary Multilingual Plane. It was added to Unicode in version 3.1 (March, 2001). It is HTML encoded as 𝛼.

Main Unicode Properties

Name Mathematical Italic Small Alpha
Unicode Codepoint U+1D6FC
Unicode Version 3.1 (March, 2001)
Block Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols
Plane Supplementary Multilingual Plane

Bidirectional Data

Bidirectional class Left To Right (L)
Is mirrored? No

Other Unicode Data

Category Lowercase Letter
Script Code for undetermined script
Combining Class Not Reordered
Decomposition mapping

U+1D6FC Conversion

HTML (decimal) 𝛼
HTML (hex) 𝛼
HTML (named) -
URL Escape Code %F0%9D%9B%BC
CSS \01D6FC
JavaScript, JSON \u1D6FC
C, C++, Java \u1D6FC
Python \u1D6FC
Rust \u{1D6FC}
Ruby \u1D6FC

How to type "𝛼"

  • Windows ?: Hold Alt, then type 1 D 6 F C. Release Alt.
  • Mac ?: Hold Alt ⌥, then type D 8 3 5 D E F C. Release Alt.

Preview

  • 𝛼
    Times, Times New Roman, serif
  • 𝛼
    Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif
  • 𝛼
    Courier, Courier New, monospace

UTF Encodings

UTF-8 (hex) 0xF0 0x9D 0x9B 0xBC
UTF-16 (hex) 0xD835 0xDEFC
UTF-32 (hex) 0x0001D6FC

References