U+0041 "A" Latin Capital Letter A Unicode Character

U+0041 "A" Latin Capital Letter A is a fundamental element of the Latin alphabet, representing the first letter in the English and many other alphabets. This code point corresponds to the uppercase version of the letter "a" and is based on the American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII) standard, where it has the same value. In text processing, it is used as the starting letter for titles, proper nouns, and the beginning of sentences, and its glyph typically features a closed, triangular shape with a horizontal bar, although font styles can vary.

General Properties

Code Point	U+0041
Version Added	1.1
Name	Latin Capital Letter A
Block	Basic Latin
General Category	Uppercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	A
HTML Hex Encoding	A
UTF-8 Encoding	0x41
UTF-16 Encoding	0x0041
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00000041
C/C++/Java Escape	\u0041

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
Uppercase	Yes
Simple Lowercase Code Point	"a" U+0061 Latin Small Letter A
Lowercase Code Point	"a" U+0061 Latin Small Letter A
Simple Case Folding	"a" U+0061 Latin Small Letter A
Case Folding	"a" U+0061 Latin Small Letter A
Cased	Yes
Changes When Casefolded	Yes
Changes When Casemapped	Yes
Changes When Lowercased	Yes
Changes When NFKC Casefolded	Yes
NFKC Casefold	"a" U+0061 Latin Small Letter A
NFKC Simple Casefold	"a" U+0061 Latin Small Letter A
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	Upper