Unicode Character "ä" U+00E4 Latin Small Letter A with Diaeresis
Unicode Version 15.1
ä
Summary
The unicode character "ä" at code point U+00E4 is Latin Small Letter A with Diaeresis. It is a character in the Latin-1 Supplement block and is part of the Latin script. The character is a lowercase letter. The UTF-8 encoding of "ä" is 0xC3 0xA4 and the UTF-16 encoding is 0x00E4.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+00E4 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Small Letter A with Diaeresis |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Latin Small Letter A Diaeresis |
| Block | Latin-1 Supplement |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "a" U+0061 Latin Small Letter A "̈" U+0308 Combining Diaeresis |
Encodings
| HTML Entity | ä |
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ä |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ä |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xC3 0xA4 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x00E4 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000000E4 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u00e4 |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Yes |
| Expands On NFD | Yes |
| Expands On NKFD | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Alphabetic |
| Lowercase | Yes |
| Simple Uppercase Code Point | "Ä" U+00C4 Latin Capital Letter A with Diaeresis |
| Simple Titlecase Code Point | "Ä" U+00C4 Latin Capital Letter A with Diaeresis |
| Uppercase Code Point | "Ä" U+00C4 Latin Capital Letter A with Diaeresis |
| Titlecase Code Point | "Ä" U+00C4 Latin Capital Letter A with Diaeresis |
| 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 |
| Vertical Orientation | Rotated |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Alphabetic letter |
| Sentence Break | Lower |