Unicode Character "a" (U+FF41)

The character (Fullwidth Latin Small Letter A) is represented by the Unicode codepoint U+FF41. It is encoded in the Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms block, which belongs to the Basic Multilingual Plane. It was added to Unicode in version 1.1 (June, 1993). It is HTML encoded as a.

Main Unicode Properties

Name Fullwidth Latin Small Letter A
Unicode Codepoint U+FF41
Unicode Version 1.1 (June, 1993)
Block Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms
Plane Basic Multilingual Plane

Bidirectional Data

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

Character Case

Case Lowercase
Uppercase character (U+FF21)

Other Unicode Data

Category Lowercase Letter
Script Latin
Combining Class Not Reordered
Decomposition mapping

U+FF41 Conversion

HTML (decimal) a
HTML (hex) a
HTML (named) -
URL Escape Code %EF%BD%81
CSS \00FF41
JavaScript, JSON \uFF41
C, C++, Java \uFF41
Python \uFF41
Rust \u{FF41}
Ruby \uFF41

How to type "a"

  • Windows ?: Hold Alt, then type F F 4 1. Release Alt.
  • Mac ?: Hold Alt ⌥, then type F F 4 1. Release Alt.

Preview

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

UTF Encodings

UTF-8 (hex) 0xEF 0xBD 0x81
UTF-16 (hex) 0xFF41
UTF-32 (hex) 0x0000FF41

References