What is the difference between Latin Small Letter A With Right Half Ring and Latin Small Letter A With Hook Above?

Latin Small Letter A With Right Half Ring is U+1E9A in the Latin Extended Additional block. Latin Small Letter A With Hook Above is U+1EA3 in the Latin Extended Additional block. They are distinct Unicode codepoints and may appear visually similar depending on the font.

What is the HTML entity for Latin Small Letter A With Right Half Ring?

The HTML entity for Latin Small Letter A With Right Half Ring (U+1E9A) is ẚ.

What is the HTML entity for Latin Small Letter A With Hook Above?

The HTML entity for Latin Small Letter A With Hook Above (U+1EA3) is ả.

Are Latin Small Letter A With Right Half Ring and Latin Small Letter A With Hook Above the same Unicode character?

No. Latin Small Letter A With Right Half Ring is U+1E9A (decimal 7834) and Latin Small Letter A With Hook Above is U+1EA3 (decimal 7843). They are separate codepoints.

What are the UTF-8 encodings of Latin Small Letter A With Right Half Ring and Latin Small Letter A With Hook Above?

Latin Small Letter A With Right Half Ring (U+1E9A) encodes as E1 BA 9A in UTF-8. Latin Small Letter A With Hook Above (U+1EA3) encodes as E1 BA A3 in UTF-8.

Latin Small Letter A With Right Half Ring vs Latin Small Letter A With Hook Above

Compare two Unicode characters side by side — encodings, HTML entities, escape sequences, and Unicode properties. Useful for distinguishing visually similar characters like hyphens and dashes, quotation marks, or homoglyphs.

ẚ

Latin Small Letter A With Right Half Ring

U+1E9A

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ả

Latin Small Letter A With Hook Above

U+1EA3

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Property Comparison

Property	Latin Small Letter A With Right Half Ring	Latin Small Letter A With Hook Above
Codepoint	`U+1E9A`	`U+1EA3`
Decimal	`7834`	`7843`
HTML Entity	`ẚ`	`ả`
HTML Decimal	`ẚ`	`ả`
HTML Hex	`ẚ`	`ả`
UTF-8	`E1 BA 9A`	`E1 BA A3`
UTF-16	`1E 9A`	`1E A3`
UTF-32	`00001E9A`	`00001EA3`
CSS Escape	`\1E9A`	`\1EA3`
JS Escape	`\u1E9A`	`\u1EA3`
Python Escape	`\u1E9A`	`\u1EA3`
URL Encoded	`%E1%BA%9A`	`%E1%BA%A3`
Category	`Lowercase Letter (Ll)`	`Lowercase Letter (Ll)`
Block	`Latin Extended Additional`	`Latin Extended Additional`
Script	`Latin`	`Latin`
Bidi Class	`L`	`L`
Unicode Version	`1.1`	`1.1`

Rows highlighted in amber differ between the two characters.

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