U+24B6 "Ⓐ" Circled Latin Capital Letter A Unicode Character

U+24B6 "Ⓐ" Circled Latin Capital Letter A is a typographic symbol representing the uppercase letter A enclosed within a circle, belonging to the Enclosed Alphanumerics block. It is often used in lists, diagrams, or annotations as a visual marker for the first item or to indicate a specific point of reference, and it may also appear in logos, gear markings, or as a placeholder in design work. While it visually resembles the symbol for anarchy, its standard Unicode designation is purely that of an enclosed letter, and it should not be confused with the distinct political symbol.

General Properties

Code Point	U+24B6
Version Added	1.1
Name	Circled Latin Capital Letter A
Block	Enclosed Alphanumerics
General Category	Other Symbol
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right
Decomposition Type	Circle
Decomposition Mapping	"A" U+0041 Latin Capital Letter A

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	Ⓐ
HTML Hex Encoding	Ⓐ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE2 0x92 0xB6
UTF-16 Encoding	0x24B6
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000024B6
C/C++/Java Escape	\u24b6

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check	Yes
NFD Quick Check	Yes
Numeric Type	None
Numeric Value	NaN
Line Break	Ambiguous (Alphabetic or Ideographic)
East Asian Width	Ambiguous
Uppercase	Yes
Other Uppercase	Yes
Simple Lowercase Code Point	"ⓐ" U+24D0 Circled Latin Small Letter A
Lowercase Code Point	"ⓐ" U+24D0 Circled Latin Small Letter A
Simple Case Folding	"ⓐ" U+24D0 Circled Latin Small Letter A
Case Folding	"ⓐ" U+24D0 Circled Latin Small Letter A
Cased	Yes
Changes When Casefolded	Yes
Changes When Casemapped	Yes
Changes When Lowercased	Yes
Changes When NFKC Casefolded	Yes
NFKC Casefold	"a" U+0061 Latin Small Letter A
NFKC Simple Casefold	"a" U+0061 Latin Small Letter A
Script	Common
Script Extensions	Common
Indic Syllabic Category	Other
Alphabetic	Yes
Other Alphabetic	Yes
Vertical Orientation	Upright
Grapheme Base	Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break	Other
Word Break	Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break	Upper