U+00C5 "Å" Latin Capital Letter A with Ring Above Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
Å
U+00C5 "Å" Latin Capital Letter A with Ring Above is a distinct letter in several Scandinavian alphabets, including Swedish, Danish, and Norwegian, where it represents a vowel sound distinct from a plain "A". Historically, the small ring above the letter originated as a diacritic representing a reduced "o" sound, and in these languages, it is treated as a separate letter in the alphabet, often placed at the end. In English and other contexts, it is sometimes used in loanwords, such as the Swedish city name "Åmål" or the symbol for the angstrom unit of length in physics, where it denotes a measure of atomic-scale distances.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+00C5 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Capital Letter A with Ring Above |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Latin Capital Letter A Ring |
| 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+030A Combining Ring Above |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Å |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Å |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xC3 0x85 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x00C5 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000000C5 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u00c5 |
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 | "å" U+00E5 Latin Small Letter A with Ring Above |
| Lowercase Code Point | "å" U+00E5 Latin Small Letter A with Ring Above |
| Simple Case Folding | "å" U+00E5 Latin Small Letter A with Ring Above |
| Case Folding | "å" U+00E5 Latin Small Letter A with Ring Above |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "å" U+00E5 Latin Small Letter A with Ring Above |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "å" U+00E5 Latin Small Letter A with Ring Above |
| 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 |