U+237A "⍺" Apl Functional Symbol Alpha Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+237A "⍺" Apl Functional Symbol Alpha is a typographic glyph used in the APL programming language to represent the alpha function, which is a higher-order operator that applies a given function to an argument and its repeated result, similar to a general concept of self-referencing recursion. This symbol is part of the APL functional symbols block in Unicode, designed specifically for coding environments that support the APL language.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+237A |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Apl Functional Symbol Alpha |
| Block | Miscellaneous Technical |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ⍺ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ⍺ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0x8D 0xBA |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x237A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000237A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u237a |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Alphabetic |
| Script | Common |
| Script Extensions | Common |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| Pattern Syntax | Yes |
| Vertical Orientation | Rotated |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Other |
| Sentence Break | Other |