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U+00E2 · LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH CIRCUMFLEX

Latin Small Letter A with Circumflex

  • CodepointU+00E2
  • NameLATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH CIRCUMFLEX
  • Decimal226
  • BlockLatin-1 Supplement (U+0080–U+00FF)
  • Plane0 — Basic Multilingual Plane
  • ScriptLatin
  • CategoryLl — Lowercase Letter
  • Unicode version1.1 (1993)
  • Bidi classL — Left-to-Right
  • Combining class0
  • East Asian widthN — Neutral
  • MirroredNo

About this character

U+00E2 (â) is LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH CIRCUMFLEX, a lowercase letter in the Latin-1 Supplement block. It belongs to the Latin script. It was added in Unicode 1.1 (1993).

Its uppercase form is U+00C2 Â.

It is precomposed. Under NFD it decomposes into U+0061 a + U+0302 ◌̂, 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 â

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Encodings & escapes

UTF-8 encoder →
UTF-8C3 A22 bytes
UTF-1600E21 code unit
UTF-32000000E24 bytes
HTML namedânamed character reference
HTML decimalâ
HTML hexâ
CSS\E2in content: "…"
JavaScript\u00E2
JSON\u00E2
Python\u00E2
Python\N{LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH CIRCUMFLEX}by name
Java / C#\u00E2
C / C++\u00E2universal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{E2}
Go\u00E2
Ruby\u00E2
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(226)
URL-encoded%C3%A2percent-encoded UTF-8
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Normalization forms

Normalizer →
NFCunchanged
NFDU+0061 a + U+0302 ◌̂
NFKCunchanged
NFKDU+0061 a + U+0302 ◌̂
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Characters built on â

U+1EA5ấLatin Small Letter A with Circumflex and Acute U+1EA7ầLatin Small Letter A with Circumflex and Grave U+1EA9ẩLatin Small Letter A with Circumflex and Hook Above U+1EABẫLatin Small Letter A with Circumflex and Tilde
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Nearby in Latin-1 Supplement

All in block →
U+00DCÜLatin Capital Letter U with Diaeresis U+00DDÝLatin Capital Letter Y with Acute U+00DEÞLatin Capital Letter Thorn U+00DFßLatin Small Letter Sharp S U+00E0àLatin Small Letter A with Grave U+00E1áLatin Small Letter A with Acute U+00E3ãLatin Small Letter A with Tilde U+00E4äLatin Small Letter A with Diaeresis U+00E5åLatin Small Letter A with Ring Above U+00E6æLatin Small Letter Ae U+00E7çLatin Small Letter C with Cedilla U+00E8èLatin Small Letter E with Grave