å is the Unicode character LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH RING ABOVE, code point U+00E5 (decimal 229) in the Latin-1 Supplement block, added in Unicode 1.1. In HTML write å, and in UTF-8 it is the 2 bytes C3 A5.
Codes
| Where | How to write it |
|---|---|
| Code point | U+00E5 |
| Decimal | 229 |
| UTF-8 bytes | C3 A5 |
| UTF-16 (big-endian) | 00E5 |
| UTF-32 | 000000E5 |
| HTML decimal | å |
| HTML hex | å |
| HTML named | å |
| CSS | \E5 |
| JavaScript | \u00E5 |
| JSON | \u00E5 |
| Python | \u00E5 |
| Python by name | \N{LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH RING ABOVE} |
| Java, C# | \u00E5 |
| Rust, Swift | \u{E5} |
| Go, C, C++ | \u00E5 |
| URL (percent-encoded) | %C3%A5 |
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 SMALL LETTER A WITH RING ABOVE |
| Code point | U+00E5 (decimal 229) |
| Block | Latin-1 Supplement (U+0080–U+00FF) |
| General category | Ll: Lowercase letter |
| Script | Latin |
| Bidirectional class | L: Left-to-right |
| Mirrored in right-to-left text | No |
| First in Unicode version | 1.1 |
Decomposition
LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH RING ABOVE is canonically equivalent to the sequence below. Normalising text to NFD splits it into these parts; NFC joins them back into U+00E5. Search and comparison should normalise first, or the two spellings will not match.
Upper and lower case
- Å U+00C5 Latin Capital Letter A With Ring Above — Uppercase
Nearby in Latin-1 Supplement
- Ý U+00DD Latin Capital Letter Y With Acute
- Þ U+00DE Latin Capital Letter Thorn
- ß U+00DF Latin Small Letter Sharp S
- à U+00E0 Latin Small Letter A With Grave
- á U+00E1 Latin Small Letter A With Acute
- â U+00E2 Latin Small Letter A With Circumflex
- ã U+00E3 Latin Small Letter A With Tilde
- ä U+00E4 Latin Small Letter A With Diaeresis
- æ U+00E6 Latin Small Letter Ae
- ç U+00E7 Latin Small Letter C With Cedilla
- è U+00E8 Latin Small Letter E With Grave
- é U+00E9 Latin Small Letter E With Acute
- ê U+00EA Latin Small Letter E With Circumflex
- ë U+00EB Latin Small Letter E With Diaeresis
- ì U+00EC Latin Small Letter I With Grave
- í U+00ED Latin Small Letter I With Acute
All 128 characters: Latin-1 Supplement.
Official reference
Questions people ask
- What is the HTML code for å?
- Use the named entity å, or å (decimal) or å (hex).
- What is the UTF-8 encoding of U+00E5?
- C3 A5 (hex), 2 bytes. In a URL it is %C3%A5.
- How do I write U+00E5 in JavaScript or Python?
- JavaScript: \u00E5. Python: \u00E5.
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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