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U+01CE · LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH CARON

Latin Small Letter A with Caron

  • CodepointU+01CE
  • NameLATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH CARON
  • Decimal462
  • BlockLatin Extended-B (U+0180–U+024F)
  • 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+01CE (ǎ) is LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH CARON, a lowercase letter in the Latin Extended-B block. It belongs to the Latin script. It was added in Unicode 1.1 (1993).

Its uppercase form is U+01CD Ǎ.

It is precomposed. Under NFD it decomposes into U+0061 a + U+030C ◌̌, 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 ǎ

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Encodings & escapes

UTF-8 encoder →
UTF-8C7 8E2 bytes
UTF-1601CE1 code unit
UTF-32000001CE4 bytes
HTML decimalǎ
HTML hexǎ
CSS\1CEin content: "…"
JavaScript\u01CE
JSON\u01CE
Python\u01CE
Python\N{LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH CARON}by name
Java / C#\u01CE
C / C++\u01CEuniversal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{1CE}
Go\u01CE
Ruby\u01CE
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(462)
URL-encoded%C7%8Epercent-encoded UTF-8
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Normalization forms

Normalizer →
NFCunchanged
NFDU+0061 a + U+030C ◌̌
NFKCunchanged
NFKDU+0061 a + U+030C ◌̌
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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+0103ăLatin Small Letter A with Breve
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Nearby in Latin Extended-B

All in block →
U+01C8LjLatin Capital Letter L with Small Letter J U+01C9ljLatin Small Letter Lj U+01CANJLatin Capital Letter Nj U+01CBNjLatin Capital Letter N with Small Letter J U+01CCnjLatin Small Letter Nj U+01CDǍLatin Capital Letter A with Caron U+01CFǏLatin Capital Letter I with Caron U+01D0ǐLatin Small Letter I with Caron U+01D1ǑLatin Capital Letter O with Caron U+01D2ǒLatin Small Letter O with Caron U+01D3ǓLatin Capital Letter U with Caron U+01D4ǔLatin Small Letter U with Caron