U+00E1 "á" Latin Small Letter A with Acute Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+00E1 "á" Latin Small Letter A with Acute is a precomposed, accented version of the lowercase letter "a" that represents the vowel sound with a stress or high tone, commonly used in languages such as Spanish, Portuguese, Irish, and Czech. This character is formed by adding an acute accent diacritic above the base letter, with its code point in the Latin-1 Supplement block of the Unicode standard, and it is distinct from the alternative representation of combining a plain "a" with the combining acute accent character. In typography, "á" functions as a distinct grapheme that can change meaning or grammatical context in certain languages, such as in Spanish where it often indicates stress on the final syllable.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+00E1 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Small Letter A with Acute |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Latin Small Letter A Acute |
| Block | Latin-1 Supplement |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "a" U+0061 Latin Small Letter A "́" U+0301 Combining Acute Accent |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | á |
| HTML Hex Encoding | á |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xC3 0xA1 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x00E1 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000000E1 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u00e1 |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Alphabetic |
| East Asian Width | Ambiguous |
| Lowercase | Yes |
| Simple Uppercase Code Point | "Á" U+00C1 Latin Capital Letter A with Acute |
| Simple Titlecase Code Point | "Á" U+00C1 Latin Capital Letter A with Acute |
| Uppercase Code Point | "Á" U+00C1 Latin Capital Letter A with Acute |
| Titlecase Code Point | "Á" U+00C1 Latin Capital Letter A with Acute |
| 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 |
| Vertical Orientation | Rotated |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Alphabetic letter |
| Sentence Break | Lower |