ä

Technical information

Symbol	ä
Name	Latin small letter a with diaeresis
Unicode number	U+00E4
Category	Latin-1 Supplement 7. Letters

Description

The Unicode character ä, or U+00E4, is known as the "Latin Small Letter A with Diaeresis". It falls under the "Latin-1 Supplement" block and is categorized as "Letter, Lowercase" in the Unicode standard. This character is widely used in various Germanic languages, including German, Swedish, Finnish, and Estonian. In German, it represents a distinct vowel sound that does not exist in English, but it's roughly similar to the vowel sound in English words like 'cat' and 'bad'. In other languages, like Swedish and Finnish, it represents a vowel sound that is roughly similar to the 'a' in the English word 'bad'.

Encoding

HTML Entity	ä
HTML Entity (hex)	ä
HTML Entity (named)	ä
URL Escape Code	%C3%A4
UTF-8 (hex)	0xC3 0xA4
UTF-8 (binary)	1100001110100100
UTF-16	0x00E4
UTF-32	0x000000E4

Source Code

C, C++, and Java	"\u00E4"
CSS Code	\00E4
JavaScript	"\u00E4"
Perl	\x{00E4}
Python 2	u"\u00E4"
Python 3	\u00E4
Ruby	\u{00E4}

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

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HTML Forms and Input

input

disabled input

input-group

select

button

Code examples in HTML and CSS

<span>&#228;</span>

span {
    content: "\00E4";
}

The symbol in different fonts

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