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Å
U+00C5 · LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH RING ABOVE

Latin Capital Letter A with Ring Above

  • CodepointU+00C5
  • NameLATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH RING ABOVE
  • Decimal197
  • BlockLatin-1 Supplement (U+0080–U+00FF)
  • Plane0 — Basic Multilingual Plane
  • ScriptLatin
  • CategoryLu — Uppercase Letter
  • Unicode version1.1 (1993)
  • Bidi classL — Left-to-Right
  • Combining class0
  • East Asian widthN — Neutral
  • MirroredNo

About this character

U+00C5 (Å) is LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH RING ABOVE, an uppercase letter in the Latin-1 Supplement block. It belongs to the Latin script. It was added in Unicode 1.1 (1993).

Its lowercase form is U+00E5 å.

It is precomposed. Under NFD it decomposes into U+0041 A + U+030A ◌̊, and NFC recombines that sequence into this single codepoint, so both spellings are canonically equivalent and should compare equal after normalization. See the normalization guide.

How to type Å

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Encodings & escapes

UTF-8 encoder →
UTF-8C3 852 bytes
UTF-1600C51 code unit
UTF-32000000C54 bytes
HTML namedÅnamed character reference
HTML namedÅnamed character reference
HTML decimalÅ
HTML hexÅ
CSS\C5in content: "…"
JavaScript\u00C5
JSON\u00C5
Python\u00C5
Python\N{LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH RING ABOVE}by name
Java / C#\u00C5
C / C++\u00C5universal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{C5}
Go\u00C5
Ruby\u00C5
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(197)
URL-encoded%C3%85percent-encoded UTF-8
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Normalization forms

Normalizer →
NFCunchanged
NFDU+0041 A + U+030A ◌̊
NFKCunchanged
NFKDU+0041 A + U+030A ◌̊
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Looks similar

Characters that Unicode’s security data (UTS #39 confusables) lists as visually confusable with this one. Useful for spotting lookalike spoofing in URLs and usernames.

U+0226ȦLatin Capital Letter A with Dot Above
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Characters built on Å

U+01FAǺLatin Capital Letter A with Ring Above and Acute U+212BÅAngstrom Sign
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Nearby in Latin-1 Supplement

All in block →
U+00BF¿Inverted Question Mark U+00C0ÀLatin Capital Letter A with Grave U+00C1ÁLatin Capital Letter A with Acute U+00C2ÂLatin Capital Letter A with Circumflex U+00C3ÃLatin Capital Letter A with Tilde U+00C4ÄLatin Capital Letter A with Diaeresis U+00C6ÆLatin Capital Letter Ae U+00C7ÇLatin Capital Letter C with Cedilla U+00C8ÈLatin Capital Letter E with Grave U+00C9ÉLatin Capital Letter E with Acute U+00CAÊLatin Capital Letter E with Circumflex U+00CBËLatin Capital Letter E with Diaeresis