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U+0101 · LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH MACRON

Latin Small Letter A with Macron

  • CodepointU+0101
  • NameLATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH MACRON
  • Decimal257
  • BlockLatin Extended-A (U+0100–U+017F)
  • Plane0 — Basic Multilingual Plane
  • ScriptLatin
  • CategoryLl — Lowercase Letter
  • Unicode version1.1 (1993)
  • Bidi classL — Left-to-Right
  • Combining class0
  • East Asian widthA — Ambiguous
  • MirroredNo

About this character

U+0101 (ā) is LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH MACRON, a lowercase letter in the Latin Extended-A block. It belongs to the Latin script. It was added in Unicode 1.1 (1993).

Its uppercase form is U+0100 Ā.

It is precomposed. Under NFD it decomposes into U+0061 a + U+0304 ◌̄, 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 ā

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Encodings & escapes

UTF-8 encoder →
UTF-8C4 812 bytes
UTF-1601011 code unit
UTF-32000001014 bytes
HTML namedānamed character reference
HTML decimalā
HTML hexā
CSS\101in content: "…"
JavaScript\u0101
JSON\u0101
Python\u0101
Python\N{LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH MACRON}by name
Java / C#\u0101
C / C++\u0101universal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{101}
Go\u0101
Ruby\u0101
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(257)
URL-encoded%C4%81percent-encoded UTF-8
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Normalization forms

Normalizer →
NFCunchanged
NFDU+0061 a + U+0304 ◌̄
NFKCunchanged
NFKDU+0061 a + U+0304 ◌̄
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Nearby in Latin Extended-A

All in block →
U+0100ĀLatin Capital Letter A with Macron U+0102ĂLatin Capital Letter A with Breve U+0103ăLatin Small Letter A with Breve U+0104ĄLatin Capital Letter A with Ogonek U+0105ąLatin Small Letter A with Ogonek U+0106ĆLatin Capital Letter C with Acute U+0107ćLatin Small Letter C with Acute