Apl Functional Symbol Alpha

U+237A

About Apl Functional Symbol Alpha

Apl Functional Symbol Alpha is the Unicode character ⍺ at codepoint U+237A in the Miscellaneous Technical block of the Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP).

Technical Reference

Unicode Codepoint
Decimal
UTF-8 (hex)
UTF-16 (hex)
HEX Entity
HTML Entity
CSS (\xxxx)
JavaScript
Python

How to Use Apl Functional Symbol Alpha

To use the Apl Functional Symbol Alpha symbol (⍺) in HTML, insert the entity ⍺ directly into your markup. The decimal entity ⍺ works in any HTML-serialised document.

In CSS pseudo-elements use content: '\237A';. In JavaScript and TypeScript the escape '\u237A' evaluates to ⍺. In Python source, write '\u237A'.

The character encodes to E2 8D BA as UTF-8 bytes and 237A as UTF-16 code units. Its decimal codepoint is 9082.

This is a text-based Unicode character. It will render in the current font on most platforms. If a font lacks this glyph, the browser may show a placeholder or fall back to a system font.

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