UnicodeCharactercom
⒜
U+249C · PARENTHESIZED LATIN SMALL LETTER A

Parenthesized Latin Small Letter A

  • CodepointU+249C
  • NamePARENTHESIZED LATIN SMALL LETTER A
  • Decimal9372
  • BlockEnclosed Alphanumerics (U+2460–U+24FF)
  • Plane0 — Basic Multilingual Plane
  • ScriptCommon
  • CategorySo — Other Symbol
  • Unicode version1.1 (1993)
  • Bidi classL — Left-to-Right
  • Combining class0
  • East Asian widthA — Ambiguous
  • MirroredNo

About this character

U+249C (⒜) is PARENTHESIZED LATIN SMALL LETTER A, a symbol in the Enclosed Alphanumerics block. Its script is Common: it is shared by many writing systems rather than belonging to one. It was added in Unicode 1.1 (1993).

It is a compatibility variant of U+0028 ( + U+0061 a + U+0029 ) (compatibility decomposition <compat>). NFC and NFD leave it alone, but NFKC and NFKD replace it with U+0028 ( + U+0061 a + U+0029 ). Search engines, identifier checks and username systems that apply NFKC will treat the two as the same text.

Its East Asian Width is Ambiguous: it takes one column in Western contexts and two in East Asian legacy contexts, a common cause of misaligned tables in terminals.

How to type ⒜

§

Encodings & escapes

UTF-8 encoder →
UTF-8E2 92 9C3 bytes
UTF-16249C1 code unit
UTF-320000249C4 bytes
HTML decimal&#9372;
HTML hex&#x249C;
CSS\249Cin content: "…"
JavaScript\u249C
JSON\u249C
Python\u249C
Python\N{PARENTHESIZED LATIN SMALL LETTER A}by name
Java / C#\u249C
C / C++\u249Cuniversal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{249C}
Go\u249C
Ruby\u249C
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(9372)
URL-encoded%E2%92%9Cpercent-encoded UTF-8
§

Normalization forms

Normalizer →
NFCunchanged
NFDunchanged
NFKCU+0028 ( + U+0061 a + U+0029 )
NFKDU+0028 ( + U+0061 a + U+0029 )
§

Nearby in Enclosed Alphanumerics

All in block →
U+2496⒖Number Fifteen Full Stop U+2497⒗Number Sixteen Full Stop U+2498⒘Number Seventeen Full Stop U+2499⒙Number Eighteen Full Stop U+249A⒚Number Nineteen Full Stop U+249B⒛Number Twenty Full Stop U+249D⒝Parenthesized Latin Small Letter B U+249E⒞Parenthesized Latin Small Letter C U+249F⒟Parenthesized Latin Small Letter D U+24A0⒠Parenthesized Latin Small Letter E U+24A1⒡Parenthesized Latin Small Letter F U+24A2⒢Parenthesized Latin Small Letter G