à is the Unicode character LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH TILDE, code point U+00C3 (decimal 195) in the Latin-1 Supplement block, added in Unicode 1.1. In HTML write Ã, and in UTF-8 it is the 2 bytes C3 83.
Codes
| Where | How to write it |
|---|---|
| Code point | U+00C3 |
| Decimal | 195 |
| UTF-8 bytes | C3 83 |
| UTF-16 (big-endian) | 00C3 |
| UTF-32 | 000000C3 |
| HTML decimal | Ã |
| HTML hex | Ã |
| HTML named | Ã |
| CSS | \C3 |
| JavaScript | \u00C3 |
| JSON | \u00C3 |
| Python | \u00C3 |
| Python by name | \N{LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH TILDE} |
| Java, C# | \u00C3 |
| Rust, Swift | \u{C3} |
| Go, C, C++ | \u00C3 |
| URL (percent-encoded) | %C3%83 |
JavaScript and JSON strings store text as UTF-16, so this character is one code unit long. Python 3 strings count code points, so its length there is 1.
Properties
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Name | LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH TILDE |
| Code point | U+00C3 (decimal 195) |
| Block | Latin-1 Supplement (U+0080–U+00FF) |
| General category | Lu: Uppercase letter |
| Script | Latin |
| Bidirectional class | L: Left-to-right |
| Mirrored in right-to-left text | No |
| First in Unicode version | 1.1 |
Decomposition
LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH TILDE is canonically equivalent to the sequence below. Normalising text to NFD splits it into these parts; NFC joins them back into U+00C3. Search and comparison should normalise first, or the two spellings will not match.
Upper and lower case
- ã U+00E3 Latin Small Letter A With Tilde — Lowercase
Nearby in Latin-1 Supplement
- » U+00BB Right-Pointing Double Angle Quotation Mark
- ¼ U+00BC Vulgar Fraction One Quarter
- ½ U+00BD Vulgar Fraction One Half
- ¾ U+00BE Vulgar Fraction Three Quarters
- ¿ U+00BF Inverted Question Mark
- À U+00C0 Latin Capital Letter A With Grave
- Á U+00C1 Latin Capital Letter A With Acute
- Â U+00C2 Latin Capital Letter A With Circumflex
- Ä U+00C4 Latin Capital Letter A With Diaeresis
- Å U+00C5 Latin Capital Letter A With Ring Above
- Æ U+00C6 Latin Capital Letter Ae
- Ç U+00C7 Latin Capital Letter C With Cedilla
- È U+00C8 Latin Capital Letter E With Grave
- É U+00C9 Latin Capital Letter E With Acute
- Ê U+00CA Latin Capital Letter E With Circumflex
- Ë U+00CB Latin Capital Letter E With Diaeresis
All 128 characters: Latin-1 Supplement.
Official reference
Questions people ask
- What is the HTML code for Ã?
- Use the named entity Ã, or à (decimal) or à (hex).
- What is the UTF-8 encoding of U+00C3?
- C3 83 (hex), 2 bytes. In a URL it is %C3%83.
- How do I write U+00C3 in JavaScript or Python?
- JavaScript: \u00C3. Python: \u00C3.
Source
Unicode Character Database 18.0.0 (Unicode License v3); HTML entity names from the WHATWG HTML Standard (CC BY 4.0). The encodings above are computed from the code point and checked against Python's encoders. How the character looks depends on your fonts.
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