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U+0102 · LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH BREVE

Latin Capital Letter A with Breve

  • CodepointU+0102
  • NameLATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH BREVE
  • Decimal258
  • BlockLatin Extended-A (U+0100–U+017F)
  • 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+0102 (Ă) is LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH BREVE, an uppercase letter in the Latin Extended-A block. It belongs to the Latin script. It was added in Unicode 1.1 (1993).

Its lowercase form is U+0103 ă.

It is precomposed. Under NFD it decomposes into U+0041 A + U+0306 ◌̆, 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 Ă

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Encodings & escapes

UTF-8 encoder →
UTF-8C4 822 bytes
UTF-1601021 code unit
UTF-32000001024 bytes
HTML namedĂnamed character reference
HTML decimalĂ
HTML hexĂ
CSS\102in content: "…"
JavaScript\u0102
JSON\u0102
Python\u0102
Python\N{LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH BREVE}by name
Java / C#\u0102
C / C++\u0102universal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{102}
Go\u0102
Ruby\u0102
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(258)
URL-encoded%C4%82percent-encoded UTF-8
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Normalization forms

Normalizer →
NFCunchanged
NFDU+0041 A + U+0306 ◌̆
NFKCunchanged
NFKDU+0041 A + U+0306 ◌̆
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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+01CDǍLatin Capital Letter A with Caron
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Characters built on Ă

U+1EAEẮLatin Capital Letter A with Breve and Acute U+1EB0ẰLatin Capital Letter A with Breve and Grave U+1EB2ẲLatin Capital Letter A with Breve and Hook Above U+1EB4ẴLatin Capital Letter A with Breve and Tilde
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Nearby in Latin Extended-A

All in block →
U+0100ĀLatin Capital Letter A with Macron U+0101āLatin Small Letter A with Macron 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 U+0108ĈLatin Capital Letter C with Circumflex