U+30A1 Katakana Letter Small A
U+30A1 was added in Unicode version 1.1 in 1993. It belongs to the block Katakana in the Basic Multilingual Plane.
This character is a Other Letter and is mainly used in the Katakana script.
The glyph is not a composition. Its East Asian Width is wide. In bidirectional text it is written from left to right. When changing direction it is not mirrored. This katakana joins with other adjacent katakana to form a word. U+30A1 prohibits line breaks before its position. There are some exceptions, though.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
A (hiragana: あ, katakana: ア) is a Japanese kana that represents the mora consisting of single vowel [a]. The hiragana character あ is based on the sōsho style of kanji 安, while the katakana ア is from the radical of kanji 阿. In the modern Japanese system of alphabetical order, it occupies the first position of the alphabet, before い. Additionally, it is the 36th letter in Iroha, after て, before さ. The Unicode for あ is U+3042, and the Unicode for ア is U+30A2.
Representations
| System | Representation |
|---|---|
| Nº | 12449 |
| UTF-8 | E3 82 A1 |
| UTF-16 | 30 A1 |
| UTF-32 | 00 00 30 A1 |
| URL-Quoted | %E3%82%A1 |
| HTML hex reference | ァ |
| Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | ã‚¡ |
| Encoding: BIG5 (hex bytes) | C6 F8 |
| Encoding: BIG5HKSCS (hex bytes) | C7 7B |
| Encoding: CP932 (hex bytes) | 83 40 |
| Encoding: CP949 (hex bytes) | AB A1 |
| Encoding: CP950 (hex bytes) | C6 F8 |
| Encoding: EUC_JP (hex bytes) | A5 A1 |
| Encoding: EUC_JIS_2004 (hex bytes) | A5 A1 |
| Encoding: EUC_JISX0213 (hex bytes) | A5 A1 |
| Encoding: EUC_KR (hex bytes) | AB A1 |
| Encoding: GB2312 (hex bytes) | A5 A1 |
| Encoding: GBK (hex bytes) | A5 A1 |
| Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes) | A5 A1 |
| Encoding: HZ (hex bytes) | 7E 7B 25 21 7E 7D |
| Encoding: ISO2022_JP (hex bytes) | 1B 24 42 25 21 1B 28 42 |
| Encoding: ISO2022_JP_1 (hex bytes) | 1B 24 42 25 21 1B 28 42 |
| Encoding: ISO2022_JP_2 (hex bytes) | 1B 24 42 25 21 1B 28 42 |
| Encoding: ISO2022_JP_2004 (hex bytes) | 1B 24 42 25 21 1B 28 42 |
| Encoding: ISO2022_JP_3 (hex bytes) | 1B 24 42 25 21 1B 28 42 |
| Encoding: ISO2022_JP_EXT (hex bytes) | 1B 24 42 25 21 1B 28 42 |
| Encoding: ISO2022_KR (hex bytes) | 1B 24 29 43 0E 2B 21 0F |
| Encoding: JOHAB (hex bytes) | DE 31 |
| Encoding: SHIFT_JIS (hex bytes) | 83 40 |
| Encoding: SHIFT_JIS_2004 (hex bytes) | 83 40 |
| Encoding: SHIFT_JISX0213 (hex bytes) | 83 40 |
| Adobe Glyph List | asmallkatakana |
| digraph | a6 |
Related Characters
Elsewhere
Complete Record
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| 1.1 (1993) | |
| KATAKANA LETTER SMALL A | |
| — | |
| Katakana | |
| Other Letter | |
| Katakana | |
| Left To Right | |
| Not Reordered | |
| none | |
| Katakana Letter Small A | |
| ✘ | |
| Katakana Letter Small A | |
| Katakana Letter Small A | |
| ✘ | |
| Katakana Letter Small A | |
| Katakana Letter Small A | |
| Katakana Letter Small A | |
| Katakana Letter Small A | |
| Katakana Letter Small A | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Katakana Letter Small A | |
| Any | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| ✘ | |
| None | |
| — | |
| NA | |
| Other | |
| — | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Yes | |
| Yes | |
| Katakana Letter Small A | |
| Yes | |
| Katakana Letter Small A | |
| Yes | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Other Letter | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Katakana | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Katakana Letter Small A | |
| None | |
| wide | |
| Not Applicable | |
| — | |
| No_Joining_Group | |
| Non Joining | |
| Conditional Japanese Starter | |
| none | |
| not a number | |
| Katakana Letter Small A | |
| Tu |