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U+1EA3 · LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH HOOK ABOVE

Latin Small Letter A with Hook Above

  • CodepointU+1EA3
  • NameLATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH HOOK ABOVE
  • Decimal7843
  • BlockLatin Extended Additional (U+1E00–U+1EFF)
  • 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+1EA3 (ả) is LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH HOOK ABOVE, a lowercase letter in the Latin Extended Additional block. It belongs to the Latin script. It was added in Unicode 1.1 (1993).

Its uppercase form is U+1EA2 Ả.

It is precomposed. Under NFD it decomposes into U+0061 a + U+0309 ◌̉, 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 ả

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Encodings & escapes

UTF-8 encoder →
UTF-8E1 BA A33 bytes
UTF-161EA31 code unit
UTF-3200001EA34 bytes
HTML decimalả
HTML hexả
CSS\1EA3in content: "…"
JavaScript\u1EA3
JSON\u1EA3
Python\u1EA3
Python\N{LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH HOOK ABOVE}by name
Java / C#\u1EA3
C / C++\u1EA3universal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{1EA3}
Go\u1EA3
Ruby\u1EA3
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(7843)
URL-encoded%E1%BA%A3percent-encoded UTF-8
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Normalization forms

Normalizer →
NFCunchanged
NFDU+0061 a + U+0309 ◌̉
NFKCunchanged
NFKDU+0061 a + U+0309 ◌̉
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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+1E9AẚLatin Small Letter A with Right Half Ring
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Nearby in Latin Extended Additional

All in block →
U+1E9DẝLatin Small Letter Long S with High Stroke U+1E9EẞLatin Capital Letter Sharp S U+1E9FẟLatin Small Letter Delta U+1EA0ẠLatin Capital Letter A with Dot Below U+1EA1ạLatin Small Letter A with Dot Below U+1EA2ẢLatin Capital Letter A with Hook Above U+1EA4ẤLatin Capital Letter A with Circumflex and Acute U+1EA5ấLatin Small Letter A with Circumflex and Acute U+1EA6ẦLatin Capital Letter A with Circumflex and Grave U+1EA7ầLatin Small Letter A with Circumflex and Grave U+1EA8ẨLatin Capital Letter A with Circumflex and Hook Above U+1EA9ẩLatin Small Letter A with Circumflex and Hook Above