U+0061 "a" Latin Small Letter A Unicode Character

U+0061 "a" Latin Small Letter A is the standard lowercase version of the first letter of the Latin alphabet, known for its simple, curved shape that is fundamental to written English and many other languages. In the Unicode standard, it occupies a core position within the Basic Latin block, being directly inherited from ASCII encoding where it holds the decimal value 97. This character serves as a cornerstone for text representation, appearing in countless words as both a vowel and the most frequently used letter in the English language, and it is essential for digital communication, programming, and data processing across all modern computing systems.

General Properties

Code Point	U+0061
Version Added	1.1
Name	Latin Small Letter A
Block	Basic Latin
General Category	Lowercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	a
HTML Hex Encoding	a
UTF-8 Encoding	0x61
UTF-16 Encoding	0x0061
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00000061
C/C++/Java Escape	\u0061

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
Lowercase	Yes
Simple Uppercase Code Point	"A" U+0041 Latin Capital Letter A
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"A" U+0041 Latin Capital Letter A
Uppercase Code Point	"A" U+0041 Latin Capital Letter A
Titlecase Code Point	"A" U+0041 Latin Capital Letter A
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
Hex Digit	Yes
ASCII Hex Digit	Yes
Vertical Orientation	Rotated
Grapheme Base	Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break	Other
Word Break	Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break	Lower