U+0105 "ą" Latin Small Letter A with Ogonek Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+0105 "ą" Latin Small Letter A with Ogonek is a distinct letter used primarily in the Polish alphabet, where it represents a nasal vowel sound produced by pronouncing an "a" while allowing air to pass through the nose. The ogonek, a small hook attached to the bottom right of the letter, indicates this nasalization, a feature shared with other letters in Polish and some Indigenous languages of the Americas. In Polish, "ą" can change its pronunciation based on context, often sounding like "on" or "om" before certain consonants, and it is an essential component of the language's orthography, appearing in common words such as "są" meaning "they are."
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0105 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Small Letter A with Ogonek |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Latin Small Letter A Ogonek |
| Block | Latin Extended-A |
| 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+0328 Combining Ogonek |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ą |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ą |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xC4 0x85 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0105 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000105 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0105 |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Alphabetic |
| Lowercase | Yes |
| Simple Uppercase Code Point | "Ą" U+0104 Latin Capital Letter A with Ogonek |
| Simple Titlecase Code Point | "Ą" U+0104 Latin Capital Letter A with Ogonek |
| Uppercase Code Point | "Ą" U+0104 Latin Capital Letter A with Ogonek |
| Titlecase Code Point | "Ą" U+0104 Latin Capital Letter A with Ogonek |
| 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 |