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U+0227 · LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH DOT ABOVE

Latin Small Letter A with Dot Above

  • CodepointU+0227
  • NameLATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH DOT ABOVE
  • Decimal551
  • BlockLatin Extended-B (U+0180–U+024F)
  • Plane0 — Basic Multilingual Plane
  • ScriptLatin
  • CategoryLl — Lowercase Letter
  • Unicode version3.0 (1999)
  • Bidi classL — Left-to-Right
  • Combining class0
  • East Asian widthN — Neutral
  • MirroredNo

About this character

U+0227 (ȧ) is LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH DOT ABOVE, a lowercase letter in the Latin Extended-B block. It belongs to the Latin script. It was added in Unicode 3.0 (1999).

Its uppercase form is U+0226 Ȧ.

It is precomposed. Under NFD it decomposes into U+0061 a + U+0307 ◌̇, 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 ȧ

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Encodings & escapes

UTF-8 encoder →
UTF-8C8 A72 bytes
UTF-1602271 code unit
UTF-32000002274 bytes
HTML decimalȧ
HTML hexȧ
CSS\227in content: "…"
JavaScript\u0227
JSON\u0227
Python\u0227
Python\N{LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH DOT ABOVE}by name
Java / C#\u0227
C / C++\u0227universal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{227}
Go\u0227
Ruby\u0227
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(551)
URL-encoded%C8%A7percent-encoded UTF-8
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Normalization forms

Normalizer →
NFCunchanged
NFDU+0061 a + U+0307 ◌̇
NFKCunchanged
NFKDU+0061 a + U+0307 ◌̇
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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+00E5åLatin Small Letter A with Ring Above
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Characters built on ȧ

U+01E1ǡLatin Small Letter A with Dot Above and Macron
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Nearby in Latin Extended-B

All in block →
U+0221ȡLatin Small Letter D with Curl U+0222ȢLatin Capital Letter Ou U+0223ȣLatin Small Letter Ou U+0224ȤLatin Capital Letter Z with Hook U+0225ȥLatin Small Letter Z with Hook U+0226ȦLatin Capital Letter A with Dot Above U+0228ȨLatin Capital Letter E with Cedilla U+0229ȩLatin Small Letter E with Cedilla U+022AȪLatin Capital Letter O with Diaeresis and Macron U+022BȫLatin Small Letter O with Diaeresis and Macron U+022CȬLatin Capital Letter O with Tilde and Macron U+022DȭLatin Small Letter O with Tilde and Macron