Unicode Character "a" U+0061 Latin Small Letter A

Unicode Version 15.1

a

Summary

The unicode character "a" at code point U+0061 is Latin Small Letter A. It is a character in the Basic Latin block and is part of the Latin script. The character is a lowercase letter. The UTF-8 encoding of "a" is 0x61 and the UTF-16 encoding is 0x0061.

General Properties

Code Point U+0061
Version Added 1.1
Name Latin Small Letter A
Block Basic Latin
General Category Lowercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding a
HTML Hex Encoding a
UTF-8 Encoding 0x61
UTF-16 Encoding 0x0061
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00000061
C/C++/Java Escape \u0061

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Alphabetic
East Asian Width Narrow
Lowercase Yes
Simple Uppercase Code Point "A" U+0041 Latin Capital Letter A
Simple Titlecase Code Point "A" U+0041 Latin Capital Letter A
Uppercase Code Point "A" U+0041 Latin Capital Letter A
Titlecase Code Point "A" U+0041 Latin Capital Letter A
Cased Yes
Changes When Casemapped Yes
Changes When Titlecased Yes
Changes When Uppercased Yes
Script Latin
Script Extensions Latin
Indic Syllabic Category Other
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Hex Digit Yes
ASCII Hex Digit Yes
Vertical Orientation Rotated
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break Lower