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U+0103 · LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH BREVE

Latin Small Letter A with Breve

  • CodepointU+0103
  • NameLATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH BREVE
  • Decimal259
  • 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 widthN — Neutral
  • MirroredNo

About this character

U+0103 (ă) is LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH BREVE, 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+0102 Ă.

It is precomposed. Under NFD it decomposes into U+0061 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 832 bytes
UTF-1601031 code unit
UTF-32000001034 bytes
HTML namedănamed character reference
HTML decimală
HTML hexă
CSS\103in content: "…"
JavaScript\u0103
JSON\u0103
Python\u0103
Python\N{LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH BREVE}by name
Java / C#\u0103
C / C++\u0103universal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{103}
Go\u0103
Ruby\u0103
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(259)
URL-encoded%C4%83percent-encoded UTF-8
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Normalization forms

Normalizer →
NFCunchanged
NFDU+0061 a + U+0306 ◌̆
NFKCunchanged
NFKDU+0061 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+01CEǎLatin Small Letter A with Caron
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Characters built on ă

U+1EAFắLatin Small Letter A with Breve and Acute U+1EB1ằLatin Small Letter A with Breve and Grave U+1EB3ẳLatin Small Letter A with Breve and Hook Above U+1EB5ẵLatin Small 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+0102ĂLatin Capital 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 U+0109ĉLatin Small Letter C with Circumflex