GREEK CAPITAL LETTER ALPHA character

GREEK CAPITAL LETTER ALPHA
U+0391
913
Α
Α
Lu (Uppercase Letter)
L (Left-to-Right)
N
0
Greek and Coptic
0
BMP
Basic Multilingual Plane
0000-FFFF
Α












GREEK CAPITAL LETTER ALPHA is an uppercase letter from the Basic Multilingual Plane.

The bidi class of GREEK CAPITAL LETTER ALPHA is Left-to-Right (Strong). It belongs to the strong left-to-right characters..

The Left-to-Right (L) bidi class is assigned to characters that are written from left to right. This includes most alphabetic characters from Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, and other scripts that are typically written in this direction. The presence of L characters in a text influences the overall text directionality in bidirectional contexts.

Uppercase Letter (Lu) refers to characters that are uppercase in a bicameral script. These include uppercase letters in scripts like Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, and others. Uppercase letters are typically used at the beginning of sentences or proper nouns, and they are distinct from lowercase letters.

This character belongs to the Greek and Coptic block. The Greek and Coptic block contains characters for writing the Greek language, both ancient and modern, as well as the Coptic language, which was used in Egypt from the 1st century AD until the 17th century. The Greek alphabet is one of the oldest scripts still in use and has been crucial in the development of the alphabetic writing system. This block includes all the necessary letters for writing classical and modern Greek, as well as diacritical marks and punctuation used in these languages. The Coptic characters are used primarily in liturgical contexts by the Coptic Orthodox Church..