Alpha Symbol α
Tap the button to copy the alpha symbol, or grab a variant below. The table has its Alt code, HTML entity and Unicode details.
| Copy | Unicode name | Codepoint | HTML | Windows Alt code |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Greek Small Letter Alpha | U+03B1 | α | Alt+224 | |
| Greek Capital Letter Alpha | U+0391 | Α | none |
- The alpha symbol is Unicode U+03B1 (Greek Small Letter Alpha).
- In HTML, type
αto get α. - On Windows, hold Alt and type 224 on the numeric keypad.
- It is a single character: it survives copy and paste into any text field and counts as one character against limits.
Lowercase alpha is the first Greek letter, used for angles, significance levels in statistics and software alpha releases. The capital looks identical to Latin A, which is why lowercase does the symbolic work. It also anchors the phrase alpha and omega.