a
U+0061
LATIN SMALL LETTER A
- Category
- Ll — Lowercase Letter
- Block
- Basic Latin
- Script
- Latin
- Plane
- Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP)
- Decimal
- 97
Encoding Table
This table shows the exact bytes used to represent LATIN SMALL LETTER A in each encoding. Unicode encodings (UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32) support every character; legacy encodings only cover a limited character set and show "not supported" when a character falls outside their range.
| Encoding | Bytes (Hex) | Bytes (Decimal) | Byte count |
|---|---|---|---|
| UTF-8 | 61 | 97 | 1 |
| UTF-16 LE | 61 00 | 97 0 | 2 |
| UTF-16 BE | 00 61 | 0 97 | 2 |
| UTF-32 LE | 61 00 00 00 | 97 0 0 0 | 4 |
| UTF-32 BE | 00 00 00 61 | 0 0 0 97 | 4 |
| ASCII | 61 | 97 | 1 |
| Latin-1 (ISO-8859-1) | 61 | 97 | 1 |
| Windows-1252 | 61 | 97 | 1 |
| ISO-8859-2 (Latin-2) | 61 | 97 | 1 |
| ISO-8859-5 (Cyrillic) | 61 | 97 | 1 |
| KOI8-R | 61 | 97 | 1 |
| Shift-JIS | 61 | 97 | 1 |
| EUC-JP | 61 | 97 | 1 |
| GBK | 61 | 97 | 1 |
| Big5 | 61 | 97 | 1 |
Escape Sequences
How to reference this character in source code, markup, and URLs.
HTML Named Entity
none
HTML Decimal
a
HTML Hex
a
CSS Escape
\61
JS / JSON Escape
\u0061
URL Percent-Encoded
a
Python (repr)
\u0061
Codepoint (Decimal)
97
Glyph Details
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View U+0061 on CharLookup.com ↗UTF-8 Binary Breakdown
UTF-8 encodes this character as 1 byte. Single-byte characters (U+0000–U+007F) are identical to ASCII — the high bit is always 0.
Byte 1
0
1
1
0
0
0
0
1
61
UTF-8: 61
· 1 byte
· Codepoint U+0061