U+01FA "Ǻ" Latin Capital Letter A with Ring Above and Acute Unicode Character
U+01FA "Ǻ" Latin Capital Letter A with Ring Above and Acute is a precomposed glyph used primarily in the Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish alphabets to represent a specific vowel sound that combines the ring diacritic, indicating a rounded or modified articulation, with the acute accent, which denotes stress or a particular pitch. This character is effectively a variant of the letter Å (A with ring) with an added acute accent, and it appears in certain loanwords and specialized contexts, such as in the writing of some Sámi languages or in phonetic transcription, though its usage is rare compared to the standard ringed A. The character is encoded in Unicode to ensure accurate typographic representation across digital platforms, preserving the intended pronunciation and orthographic detail.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+01FA |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Capital Letter A with Ring Above and Acute |
| Block | Latin Extended-B |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "Å" U+00C5 Latin Capital Letter A with Ring Above "́" U+0301 Combining Acute Accent |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ǻ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ǻ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xC7 0xBA |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x01FA |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000001FA |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u01fa |
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 | "ǻ" U+01FB Latin Small Letter A with Ring Above and Acute |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ǻ" U+01FB Latin Small Letter A with Ring Above and Acute |
| Simple Case Folding | "ǻ" U+01FB Latin Small Letter A with Ring Above and Acute |
| Case Folding | "ǻ" U+01FB Latin Small Letter A with Ring Above and Acute |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ǻ" U+01FB Latin Small Letter A with Ring Above and Acute |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ǻ" U+01FB Latin Small Letter A with Ring Above and Acute |
| 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 |