U+00E4 "ä" Latin Small Letter A with Diaeresis Unicode Character

Unicode Version 18.0

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Source: Noto Sans Source: Browser Default

U+00E4 "ä" Latin Small Letter A with Diaeresis is a precomposed character representing the letter "a" with an umlaut or diaeresis, two dots placed above it, used in several languages including German, Swedish, Finnish, and Estonian to denote a distinct vowel sound typically pronounced as a fronted or centralized open vowel. In German, it functions as an umlaut derived from historical vowel harmony, while in other languages like Finnish it is a standalone letter in the alphabet. This character is encoded in the Latin-1 Supplement block of Unicode, allowing for consistent digital representation across platforms and systems.

General Properties

Code Point
U+00E4
Name
Latin Small Letter A with Diaeresis
Unicode 1.0 Name
Latin Small Letter A Diaeresis

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding
ä
HTML Hex Encoding
ä
UTF-8 Encoding
0xC3 0xA4
UTF-16 Encoding
0x00E4
UTF-32 Encoding
0x000000E4
C/C++/Java Escape
\u00e4