ã

Technical information

Symbol	ã
Name	Latin small letter a with tilde
Unicode number	U+00E3
Category	Latin-1 Supplement 7. Letters

Description

The Unicode character ã, or U+00E3, is known as the "Latin Small Letter A with Tilde". It belongs to the "Latin-1 Supplement" block and falls under the "Letter, Lowercase" category in the Unicode standard. This character is a graphic representation of a lowercase 'a' with a tilde (~) above it. The tilde is a diacritical mark used in many languages, including Portuguese and Vietnamese, among others, to indicate a change in pronunciation, often a nasalization of the vowel. The specific appearance and usage of this character can depend on the system and application it's being used in.

Encoding

HTML Entity	ã
HTML Entity (hex)	ã
HTML Entity (named)	ã
URL Escape Code	%C3%A3
UTF-8 (hex)	0xC3 0xA3
UTF-8 (binary)	1100001110100011
UTF-16	0x00E3
UTF-32	0x000000E3

Source Code

C, C++, and Java	"\u00E3"
CSS Code	\00E3
JavaScript	"\u00E3"
Perl	\x{00E3}
Python 2	u"\u00E3"
Python 3	\u00E3
Ruby	\u{00E3}

Preview

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

CSS Property: font-weight

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HTML Forms and Input

input

disabled input

input-group

select

button

Code examples in HTML and CSS

<span>&#227;</span>

span {
    content: "\00E3";
}

The symbol in different fonts

-apple-system

Apple Color Emoji

Arial

BlinkMacSystemFont

Courier New

Georgia

Droid Sans

Helvetica

Noto Sans

Oxygen

Roboto

"Segoe UI"

sans-serif

Segoe UI Emoji

Segoe UI Symbol

system-ui

Times New Roman

Ubuntu

Verdana

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