U+00C2 "Â" Latin Capital Letter A with Circumflex Unicode Character
U+00C2 "Â" Latin Capital Letter A with Circumflex is a precomposed accented letter used in various languages including French, Portuguese, Romanian, and Vietnamese, where it represents the vowel "A" modified by a circumflex diacritic indicating a specific pronunciation shift, such as a longer, more closed, or nasalized sound. In French, it often marks a historical loss of a following "s" (as in "âme" from Latin "anima") and can distinguish homophones, while in Romanian it is a distinct letter in the alphabet representing a sound similar to the "a" in "father." The character is encoded in the Latin-1 Supplement block of Unicode, with a code point derived from its ISO 8859-1 position, and is commonly used in text processing, web content, and typography across multiple languages.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+00C2 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Capital Letter A with Circumflex |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Latin Capital Letter A Circumflex |
| 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+0302 Combining Circumflex Accent |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Â |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Â |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xC3 0x82 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x00C2 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000000C2 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u00c2 |
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 | "â" U+00E2 Latin Small Letter A with Circumflex |
| Lowercase Code Point | "â" U+00E2 Latin Small Letter A with Circumflex |
| Simple Case Folding | "â" U+00E2 Latin Small Letter A with Circumflex |
| Case Folding | "â" U+00E2 Latin Small Letter A with Circumflex |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "â" U+00E2 Latin Small Letter A with Circumflex |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "â" U+00E2 Latin Small Letter A with Circumflex |
| 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 |