U+0101 LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH MACRON

ā

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Decimal / Nº
257
General Category
Script
Bidi Category
Left-To-Right
East Asian Width
ambiguous
Combining Class
Not Reordered
Decomposition
a canonical composition

Character Details

The Unicode character U+0101, officially named LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH MACRON, was introduced in Unicode version 1.1. It is part of the Latin Ext A block, which belongs to the Basic Multilingual plane. Previously, it was also referred to as LATIN SMALL LETTER A MACRON.

Categorized technically as a Lowercase Letter, this character typically falls under the Latin script. In terms of text layout and rendering, the glyph is a canonical composition and has ambiguous in East Asian typography. When placed in bidirectional text, it behaves as an Left-To-Right character. Its visual representation remains not mirrored regardless of the reading direction.

Representations & Encodings

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257 Copied!
UTF-8 C4 81 Copied!
UTF-16 01 01 Copied!
UTF-32 00 00 01 01 Copied!
URL-Quoted %C4%81 Copied!
HTML hex reference ā Copied!
RFC 5137 \u'0101' Copied!
Bash and Zsh (inside echo -e) \u0101 Copied!
C and C++ \u0101 Copied!
C# \u0101 Copied!
CSS \000101 Copied!
Excel =UNICHAR(257) Copied!
Go \u0101 Copied!
JavaScript \u0101 Copied!
Modern JavaScript (since ES6) \u{0101} Copied!
JSON \u0101 Copied!
Java \u0101 Copied!
Lua \u{0101} Copied!
Matlab char(257) Copied!
Perl \x{0101} Copied!
PHP \u{0101} Copied!
PostgreSQL U&'\0101' Copied!
PowerShell `u{0101} Copied!
Python \u0101 Copied!
Ruby \u{0101} Copied!
Rust \u{0101} Copied!