Unicode Character "अ" (U+0905)

The character अ (Devanagari Letter A) is represented by the Unicode codepoint U+0905. It is encoded in the Devanagari block, which belongs to the Basic Multilingual Plane. It was added to Unicode in version 1.1 (June, 1993). It is HTML encoded as अ.

Main Unicode Properties

Name Devanagari Letter A
Unicode Codepoint U+0905
Unicode Version 1.1 (June, 1993)
Block Devanagari
Plane Basic Multilingual Plane

Bidirectional Data

Bidirectional class Left To Right (L)
Is mirrored? No

Other Unicode Data

Category Other Letter
Script Devanagari
Combining Class Not Reordered

U+0905 Conversion

HTML (decimal) अ
HTML (hex) अ
HTML (named) -
URL Escape Code %E0%A4%85
CSS \000905
JavaScript, JSON \u0905
C, C++, Java \u0905
Python \u0905
Rust \u{0905}
Ruby \u0905

How to type "अ"

  • Windows ?: Hold Alt, then type 0 9 0 5. Release Alt.
  • Mac ?: Hold Alt ⌥, then type 0 9 0 5. Release Alt.

Preview

  • अ
    Times, Times New Roman, serif
  • अ
    Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif
  • अ
    Courier, Courier New, monospace

UTF Encodings

UTF-8 (hex) 0xE0 0xA4 0x85
UTF-16 (hex) 0x0905
UTF-32 (hex) 0x00000905

References