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U+0061BASIC LATIN CHARACTER U+0061

Lowercase Latin letter "a" (uppercase: "A"), fundamental to the modern Latin alphabet.

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BASIC LATIN CHARACTER U+0061
U+0061 • Decimal 97
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Instant Clipboard Export
Character Glyph (Raw)
a
Unicode Codepoint (Hex)
U+0061
Decimal Integer
97
HTML Entity (Decimal)
a
HTML Entity (Hex)
a
JavaScript ES6 / JSON
\u0061
Java / C# (Surrogates)
\u0061
Python 3
\u0061
C / C++ / Rust
\u0061
CSS Content
\000061
URL Percent-Encoded
a
Raw UTF-8 Bytes (Hex)
0x61
Base64 Stream
YQ==

Unicode Character Database (UCD) Technical Specifications

Unicode 16.0 Standard
Unicode PlanePlane 0: Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP) • U+0000..U+FFFF
Unicode BlockBasic Latin (U+0..U+7F)
General CategoryLl Lowercase Letter
Bidirectional ClassL (Left-to-Right) • Flow: LTR
Unicode Version IntroducedUnicode 1.1 (1993)
UTF-8 Byte Stream0x61 (1 Byte)
UTF-16 Code Units0x0061
UTF-32 Hexadecimal0x00000061

Quick Character Summary

Glypha
Hex CodepointU+0061
Decimal ID97
ScriptLatin
DirectionLTR (L)
Introduced InUnicode 1.1 (1993)

Device & Font Support

99.9% Support
Apple (iOS / macOS)iOS 1.0+
Google (Android / Chrome)Android 1.0+
Microsoft (Windows)Windows 95+

ASCII core character supported on virtually every digital display and operating system in existence.