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U+30A1

KATAKANA LETTER SMALL A

KATAKANA LETTER SMALL A · Other Letter · Katakana · Katakana script

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Quick facts

Code point: U+30A1
Decimal: 12449
Name: KATAKANA LETTER SMALL A
General category: Lo — Other Letter
Block: Katakana
Script: Katakana
Bidi class: L
Combining class: 0
Age: 1.1
Name aliases: —

Normalization & case

Decomposition: —
Uppercase: —
Lowercase: —
Titlecase: —
Case folding: —
Bidi mirrored: No

Layout & width

East Asian Width: W
Line Break: CJ
Numeric: —
Script extensions: —

Binary properties

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Developer examples

JS: '\u{30a1}' // U+30A1
Python: "\N{KATAKANA LETTER SMALL A}"
HTML: ァ

Encodings & escapes

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UTF-16
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Block

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Script

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Source

Unicode: 16.0.0
WHATWG: —