U+E0061 "" Tag Latin Small Letter A Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
U+E0061 "" Tag Latin Small Letter A is a special tag character within the Unicode standard, specifically part of the “Tags” block used for language tagging in plain text. It does not represent an ordinary letter but instead functions purely as a formatting or metadata marker, typically invisible in standard rendering, to indicate language or script boundaries when combined with other tag characters. This character is often employed in situations like flag emoji sequences, where multiple tag letters are combined to represent a country code, and it requires a specific font and environment to be displayed meaningfully, as its primary purpose is to encode language information rather than visible text.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+E0061 |
| Version Added | 3.1 |
| Name | Tag Latin Small Letter A |
| Block | Tags |
| General Category | Format |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Boundary Neutral |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 󠁡 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 󠁡 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF3 0xA0 0x81 0xA1 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xDB40 0xDC61 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000E0061 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \udb40\udc61 |