U+1E01 "ḁ" Latin Small Letter A with Ring Below Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+1E01 "ḁ" Latin Small Letter A with Ring Below is a specialized glyph used primarily in the phonetic transcription systems of certain languages, such as in the Uralic Phonetic Alphabet, where it represents a specific vowel sound that is lower or more open than a standard "a," with the diacritical ring indicating a particular articulatory feature. This character is formed by combining a base Latin small letter "a" with a combining ring below, and it is distinct from the more common "å" (which has a ring above), serving instead to denote a voiced or centralized variant in linguistic notation. Although rarely encountered in everyday text, it is an essential tool for scholars in fields like phonetics, historical linguistics, and dialectology to precisely document and analyze subtle differences in vowel pronunciation.

General Properties

Code Point U+1E01
Version Added 1.1
Name Latin Small Letter A with Ring Below
Block Latin Extended Additional
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+0325 Combining Ring Below

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ḁ
HTML Hex Encoding ḁ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE1 0xB8 0x81
UTF-16 Encoding 0x1E01
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00001E01
C/C++/Java Escape \u1e01

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 "Ḁ" U+1E00 Latin Capital Letter A with Ring Below
Simple Titlecase Code Point "Ḁ" U+1E00 Latin Capital Letter A with Ring Below
Uppercase Code Point "Ḁ" U+1E00 Latin Capital Letter A with Ring Below
Titlecase Code Point "Ḁ" U+1E00 Latin Capital Letter A with Ring Below
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