U+1EA8 "Ẩ" Latin Capital Letter A with Circumflex and Hook Above Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
Ẩ
U+1EA8 "Ẩ" Latin Capital Letter A with Circumflex and Hook Above is a specialized letter used primarily in the Vietnamese alphabet to represent a specific tonal variant of the vowel sound "â". It combines a base Latin capital A with a circumflex accent, which indicates a higher and more closed pronunciation, and a hook above, which denotes a falling then rising tone. This character is essential for accurately writing Vietnamese words and is part of the Latin Extended Additional block in Unicode, ensuring proper digital representation and text processing for the language.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1EA8 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Capital Letter A with Circumflex and Hook Above |
| Block | Latin Extended Additional |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "Â" U+00C2 Latin Capital Letter A with Circumflex "̉" U+0309 Combining Hook Above |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ẩ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ẩ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xBA 0xA8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1EA8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001EA8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1ea8 |