Ä

Technical information

Symbol	Ä
Name	Latin capital letter a with diaeresis
Unicode number	U+00C4
Category	Latin-1 Supplement 5. Letters

Description

The Unicode character Ä, or U+00C4, is known as the "Latin Capital Letter A with Diaeresis". It belongs to the "Latin-1 Supplement" block and falls under the "Letter, Uppercase" category in the Unicode standard. This character is a representation of the letter "A" in the Latin alphabet, but it's marked with two dots above it, which are known as a diaeresis or an umlaut. It can be used in written communications in several languages, including German and Swedish, where it represents a distinct vowel sound that is different from the sound of a regular "A". The specific appearance and usage of this character can depend on the system and application it's being used in.

Encoding

HTML Entity	Ä
HTML Entity (hex)	Ä
HTML Entity (named)	Ä
URL Escape Code	%C3%84
UTF-8 (hex)	0xC3 0x84
UTF-8 (binary)	1100001110000100
UTF-16	0x00C4
UTF-32	0x000000C4

Source Code

C, C++, and Java	"\u00C4"
CSS Code	\00C4
JavaScript	"\u00C4"
Perl	\x{00C4}
Python 2	u"\u00C4"
Python 3	\u00C4
Ruby	\u{00C4}

Preview

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

CSS Property: font-weight

100

200

300

400

500

600

700

800

900

HTML Forms and Input

input

disabled input

input-group

select

button

Code examples in HTML and CSS

<span>&#196;</span>

span {
    content: "\00C4";
}

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

Ä