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 df431a83972b78..b942118d67fb9b 100644
--- a/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst
@@ -1921,6 +1921,18 @@ 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/Unicode15.1.0/ch04.pdf>`_.
+   For example:
+
+   .. doctest::
+
+      >>> 'Letters and spaces'.isalpha()
+      False
+      >>> 'LettersOnly'.isalpha()
+      True
+      >>> 'µ'.isalpha()  # non-ASCII characters can be considered alphabetical too
+      True
+
+   See :ref:`unicode-properties`.
 
 
 .. method:: str.isascii()