diff --git a/Doc/howto/unicode.rst b/Doc/howto/unicode.rst
index 254fe729355353..243cc27bac7025 100644
--- a/Doc/howto/unicode.rst
+++ b/Doc/howto/unicode.rst
@@ -352,6 +352,8 @@ If you don't include such a comment, the default encoding used will be UTF-8 as
 already mentioned.  See also :pep:`263` for more information.
 
 
+.. _unicode-properties:
+
 Unicode Properties
 ------------------
 
diff --git a/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst b/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst
index a81a6704142dcc..3827f4f0db8067 100644
--- a/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst
@@ -1990,6 +1990,18 @@ expression support in the :mod:`re` module).
    from the `Alphabetic property defined in the section 4.10 'Letters, Alphabetic, and
    Ideographic' of the Unicode Standard
    <https://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode16.0.0/core-spec/chapter-4/#G91002>`_.
+   For example:
+
+   .. doctest::
+
+      >>> 'a commom word'.isalpha()
+      False
+      >>> 'acommomword'.isalpha()
+      True
+      >>> 'µ'.isalpha()  # non-ascii characters can be considered alphabetical too
+      True
+
+   See :ref:`unicode-properties`.
 
 
 .. method:: str.isascii()