a

Technical information

Symbola
NameLatin small letter a
Unicode numberU+0061
CategoryASCII Table7. Lowercase Latin alphabet
DescriptionThe Unicode character a, or U+0061, is known as the "Latin Small Letter A". It belongs to the "Basic Latin" block and falls under the "Letter, Lowercase" category in the Unicode standard. This character is a letter from the Latin alphabet and is used widely in many languages, including English. The letter a typically represents a vowel sound. The specific appearance and usage of this character can depend on the system and application it's being used in.

Encoding

HTML Entitya
HTML Entity (hex)a
URL Escape Codea
UTF-8 (hex)0x61
UTF-8 (binary)01100001
UTF-160x0061
UTF-320x00000061

Source Code

C, C++, and Java"\u0061"
CSS Code\0061
JavaScript"\u0061"
Perl\x{0061}
Python 2u"\u0061"
Python 3\u0061
Ruby\u{0061}

Preview

This Unicode character looks like this a in sentence and in bold like this a and in italic like this a.

Font size:

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12px
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16px
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20px
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28px
a
36px
a
48px
a
72px

CSS Property: font-weight

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100
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200
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300
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400
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500
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600
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700
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800
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900

HTML Forms and Input

input
disabled input
a
input-group
select
button
button

Code examples in HTML and CSS

<span>&#97;</span>

            
span {
    content: "\0061";
}

The symbol in different fonts

a
-apple-system
a
Apple Color Emoji
a
Arial
a
BlinkMacSystemFont
a
Courier New
a
Georgia
a
Droid Sans
a
Helvetica
a
Noto Sans
a
Oxygen
a
Roboto
a
"Segoe UI"
a
sans-serif
a
Segoe UI Emoji
a
Segoe UI Symbol
a
system-ui
a
Times New Roman
a
Ubuntu
a
Verdana

References