U+0104 "Ą" Latin Capital Letter A with Ogonek Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

Ą

U+0104 "Ą" Latin Capital Letter A with Ogonek is a letter used primarily in the Polish alphabet, where it represents a nasalized "o" sound, as well as in other languages such as Lithuanian and Old Church Slavonic, where it denotes a nasal vowel. It is formed by adding a small hook called an ogonek to the bottom of the standard Latin capital A, which indicates a historical or phonological nasalization of the vowel. This character is part of the Latin Extended-A block in Unicode, encoding a glyph that distinguishes itself from the plain capital A through its distinctive tail, and it is commonly encountered in text that requires accurate representation of certain Central and Eastern European languages.

General Properties

Code Point U+0104
Version Added 1.1
Name Latin Capital Letter A with Ogonek
Unicode 1.0 Name Latin Capital Letter A Ogonek
Block Latin Extended-A
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+0328 Combining Ogonek

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding Ą
HTML Hex Encoding Ą
UTF-8 Encoding 0xC4 0x84
UTF-16 Encoding 0x0104
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00000104
C/C++/Java Escape \u0104

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 "ą" U+0105 Latin Small Letter A with Ogonek
Lowercase Code Point "ą" U+0105 Latin Small Letter A with Ogonek
Simple Case Folding "ą" U+0105 Latin Small Letter A with Ogonek
Case Folding "ą" U+0105 Latin Small Letter A with Ogonek
Cased Yes
Changes When Casefolded Yes
Changes When Casemapped Yes
Changes When Lowercased Yes
Changes When NFKC Casefolded Yes
NFKC Casefold "ą" U+0105 Latin Small Letter A with Ogonek
NFKC Simple Casefold "ą" U+0105 Latin Small Letter A with Ogonek
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