ꜣ is the Unicode character LATIN SMALL LETTER EGYPTOLOGICAL ALEF, code point U+A723 (decimal 42787) in the Latin Extended-D block, added in Unicode 5.1. In HTML write ꜣ, and in UTF-8 it is the 3 bytes EA 9C A3.
Codes
| Where | How to write it |
|---|---|
| Code point | U+A723 |
| Decimal | 42787 |
| UTF-8 bytes | EA 9C A3 |
| UTF-16 (big-endian) | A723 |
| UTF-32 | 0000A723 |
| HTML decimal | ꜣ |
| HTML hex | ꜣ |
| CSS | \A723 |
| JavaScript | \uA723 |
| JSON | \uA723 |
| Python | \uA723 |
| Python by name | \N{LATIN SMALL LETTER EGYPTOLOGICAL ALEF} |
| Java, C# | \uA723 |
| Rust, Swift | \u{A723} |
| Go, C, C++ | \uA723 |
| URL (percent-encoded) | %EA%9C%A3 |
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 EGYPTOLOGICAL ALEF |
| Code point | U+A723 (decimal 42787) |
| Block | Latin Extended-D (U+A720–U+A7FF) |
| General category | Ll: Lowercase letter |
| Script | Latin |
| Bidirectional class | L: Left-to-right |
| Mirrored in right-to-left text | No |
| First in Unicode version | 5.1 |
Upper and lower case
- Ꜣ U+A722 Latin Capital Letter Egyptological Alef — Uppercase
Nearby in Latin Extended-D
- ꜠ U+A720 Modifier Letter Stress And High Tone
- ꜡ U+A721 Modifier Letter Stress And Low Tone
- Ꜣ U+A722 Latin Capital Letter Egyptological Alef
- Ꜥ U+A724 Latin Capital Letter Egyptological Ain
- ꜥ U+A725 Latin Small Letter Egyptological Ain
- Ꜧ U+A726 Latin Capital Letter Heng
- ꜧ U+A727 Latin Small Letter Heng
- Ꜩ U+A728 Latin Capital Letter Tz
- ꜩ U+A729 Latin Small Letter Tz
- Ꜫ U+A72A Latin Capital Letter Tresillo
- ꜫ U+A72B Latin Small Letter Tresillo
All 206 characters: Latin Extended-D.
Official reference
Questions people ask
- What is the HTML code for ꜣ?
- Use ꜣ (decimal) or ꜣ (hex).
- What is the UTF-8 encoding of U+A723?
- EA 9C A3 (hex), 3 bytes. In a URL it is %EA%9C%A3.
- How do I write U+A723 in JavaScript or Python?
- JavaScript: \uA723. Python: \uA723.
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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