U+00C1 "Á" Latin Capital Letter A with Acute Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
Á
U+00C1 "Á" Latin Capital Letter A with Acute is a precomposed character that combines a standard Latin capital letter A with a combining acute accent diacritic, signifying a stressed or high-pitched vowel sound in languages such as Spanish, Irish, and Portuguese. Its numeric value in HTML can be represented by the entity "Á" or by its decimal Unicode number 193, and it belongs to the Latin-1 Supplement block in the Unicode standard. This character is commonly used for proper nouns, loanwords, and words where the accent denotes a distinct pronunciation or meaning, for instance in the Spanish word "Árbol" meaning tree.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+00C1 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Capital Letter A with Acute |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Latin Capital Letter A Acute |
| Block | Latin-1 Supplement |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "A" U+0041 Latin Capital Letter A "́" U+0301 Combining Acute Accent |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Á |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Á |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xC3 0x81 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x00C1 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000000C1 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u00c1 |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Alphabetic |
| Uppercase | Yes |
| Simple Lowercase Code Point | "á" U+00E1 Latin Small Letter A with Acute |
| Lowercase Code Point | "á" U+00E1 Latin Small Letter A with Acute |
| Simple Case Folding | "á" U+00E1 Latin Small Letter A with Acute |
| Case Folding | "á" U+00E1 Latin Small Letter A with Acute |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "á" U+00E1 Latin Small Letter A with Acute |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "á" U+00E1 Latin Small Letter A with Acute |
| Script | Latin |
| Script Extensions | Latin |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| ID Start | Yes |
| XID Start | Yes |
| ID Continue | Yes |
| XID Continue | Yes |
| Alphabetic | Yes |
| Vertical Orientation | Rotated |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Alphabetic letter |
| Sentence Break | Upper |