58 accented a letters
Checked October 2026

A With Tilde

Copy ã or Ã, the a with a tilde; å, â, á, à, ä and ā follow, with their codes.

A With Tilde

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58 accented a letters. Tap any value to copy it.

58 accented a letters. A character and its name both copy the character. A code copies the code.
Character	Name	Code point	Alt code	Option keys	HTML
	U+00E3. The a with a tilde. In Portuguese it is a nasal vowel, alone or in the pairs ão and ãe; in Vietnamese it is a in the ngã tone.
	U+00C3. Capital ã.
	U+00E5. The a with a circle on top. The circle is a ring: å began as a small o written over an a, and Danish, Norwegian and Swedish count it as a letter of its own.
	U+00C5. Capital å, and the sign of the angstrom, a unit of length. Unicode has an angstrom sign too, U+212B, and prefers this letter to it.
	U+00E2. The a with a circumflex, which Unicode also calls a hat. In French it mostly marks an s that once followed the a: bâton, stick, was baston.
	U+00C2. Capital â.
	U+00E1. The a with an acute accent. Irish calls it a fada, long a; in Czech, Hungarian and Icelandic it is the second letter of the alphabet; in Spanish it marks the stress.
	U+00C1. Capital á. The U.S. Option layer types it in one press, as it does Â and Å.
	U+00E0. The a with a grave accent, which slopes the other way from á. French tells là, there, from la, the, by it; on an invoice à means at a rate of.
	U+00C0. Capital à.
	U+00E4. The a with two dots. In German the dots are an umlaut, and began as a small e written on top of the a. Swedish, Finnish and Estonian write ä too.
	U+00C4. Capital ä.
	U+0101. The a with a line over it. The line is a macron and marks a long a: Latvian and Māori write ā, and in pinyin it is the first tone of a.
	U+0100. Capital ā.
	U+0103. The a with a breve, the mark Unicode also calls short: the second letter of the Romanian alphabet and of the Vietnamese one, where it is a short a.
	U+0102. Capital ă.
	U+0105. The a with an ogonek, a little tail under the letter. In Polish it follows a in the alphabet and never begins a word; Lithuanian has the letter too.
	U+0104. Capital ą.
	U+01CE. The a with a caron: the third tone of a in pinyin, whose four tones are ā, á, ǎ and à. Easily taken for ă, which carries a breve.
	U+01CD. Capital ǎ.
	U+01DF. ä with a macron over the dots. Unicode's note on it names Livonian.
	U+01DE. Capital ǟ.
	U+0227. The a with one dot above. Added in Unicode 3.0, after every other letter in this table.
	U+0226. Capital ȧ.
	U+01E1. ȧ with a macron over the dot.
	U+01E0. Capital ǡ.
	U+01FB. å with an acute accent over the ring.
	U+01FA. Capital ǻ.
	U+0201. The a with two grave accents side by side. Unicode's note on the mark: Serbian and Croatian phonetics.
	U+0200. Capital ȁ.
	U+0203. The a with an inverted breve, an arch over the letter. Unicode lists it with its additions for Slovenian.
	U+0202. Capital ȃ.
	U+1E01. The a with the ring under the letter and not over it. Below a letter, the phonetic alphabet reads a ring as voiceless.
	U+1E00. Capital ḁ.
	U+1EA3. The a with a hook above: Vietnamese a in the hỏi tone.
	U+1EA2. Capital ả.
	U+1EA1. The a with a dot below: Vietnamese a in the nặng tone.
	U+1EA0. Capital ạ.
	U+1EA5. â with an acute accent over the hat. In Vietnamese â is a letter of its own, and this is â in the sắc tone, the rising one.
	U+1EA4. Capital ấ.
	U+1EA7. â with a grave accent over the hat: the huyền tone, low and falling.
	U+1EA6. Capital ầ.
	U+1EA9. â with a hook above the hat: the hỏi tone.
	U+1EA8. Capital ẩ.
	U+1EAB. â with a tilde over the hat: the ngã tone.
	U+1EAA. Capital ẫ.
	U+1EAD. â with a dot below: the nặng tone.
	U+1EAC. Capital ậ.
	U+1EAF. ă with an acute accent over the breve: the short a of Vietnamese in the sắc tone.
	U+1EAE. Capital ắ.
	U+1EB1. ă with a grave accent over the breve: the huyền tone.
	U+1EB0. Capital ằ.
	U+1EB3. ă with a hook above the breve: the hỏi tone.
	U+1EB2. Capital ẳ.
	U+1EB5. ă with a tilde over the breve: the ngã tone.
	U+1EB4. Capital ẵ.
	U+1EB7. ă with a dot below: the nặng tone.
	U+1EB6. Capital ặ.

Next step ñ, õ and the keyboard tilde Alt codes for é, ñ, ö and ü

How it works

An a with a tilde is ã, capital Ã: Latin small letter a with tilde, U+00E3, the nasal a of Portuguese. Other marks an a takes: a ring, a hat, two accents, two dots and a line.

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No short Alt code for ã

The old PC character set has á, à, â, ä and å and leaves ã out. So ã and Ã have no short Alt code, only the four-digit one that begins with a zero.

Accent aigu and accent grave

Accent aigu is the French name of the acute accent, the one on á; accent grave is the one on à.

A capital a with a line over it is Ā, U+0100: copy it, or write &Amacr; in HTML.
Text that shows Ã beside a second sign, such as Ã© for é, is text read in the wrong encoding, not this letter.

Questions and answers

How do you type a with a tilde?

On Windows, hold Alt and type 0227 on the number pad; the capital is Alt+0195. On a Mac with the U.S. layout, press Option+N, then A, or hold the a key until the accent menu opens.

What is the a with a circle on top?

å, a with ring above, U+00E5: Alt+134 or Alt+0229, Option+A, and å in HTML. The capital with the circle above it is Å: Alt+143 or Alt+0197, and Option+Shift+A.

What is the letter a with two dots above it?

ä, a with diaeresis in Unicode and a umlaut after the German name of the mark: Alt+132 or Alt+0228, and Option+U, then A. The capital a umlaut, Ä, is Alt+142 or Alt+0196.

What is a with a hat called?

A with circumflex: â, U+00E2. It is Alt+131 or Alt+0226, Option+I, then A, and â as a special character in HTML. The capital Â is Alt+0194 and has no short code.

Is there a special character for a with a line above it?

Yes: ā, a with macron, U+0101, written &amacr; in HTML. No Alt code table holds it or its capital, but some programs read Alt+257, its code point as a plain number, as ā.

All 58 accented a letters

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Latin capital letter a with acute U+00C1. Capital á. The U.S. Option layer types it in one press, as it does Â and Å.
Latin capital letter a with circumflex U+00C2. Capital â.
Latin capital letter a with diaeresis U+00C4. Capital ä.
Latin capital letter a with grave U+00C0. Capital à.
Latin capital letter a with macron U+0100. Capital ā.
Latin capital letter a with ring above U+00C5. Capital å, and the sign of the angstrom, a unit of length. Unicode has an angstrom sign too, U+212B, and prefers this letter to it.
Latin capital letter a with tilde U+00C3. Capital ã.
Latin small letter a with acute U+00E1. The a with an acute accent. Irish calls it a fada, long a; in Czech, Hungarian and Icelandic it is the second letter of the alphabet; in Spanish it marks the stress.
Latin small letter a with circumflex U+00E2. The a with a circumflex, which Unicode also calls a hat. In French it mostly marks an s that once followed the a: bâton, stick, was baston.

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Latin small letter a with diaeresis U+00E4. The a with two dots. In German the dots are an umlaut, and began as a small e written on top of the a. Swedish, Finnish and Estonian write ä too.
Latin small letter a with grave U+00E0. The a with a grave accent, which slopes the other way from á. French tells là, there, from la, the, by it; on an invoice à means at a rate of.
Latin small letter a with macron U+0101. The a with a line over it. The line is a macron and marks a long a: Latvian and Māori write ā, and in pinyin it is the first tone of a.
Latin small letter a with ring above U+00E5. The a with a circle on top. The circle is a ring: å began as a small o written over an a, and Danish, Norwegian and Swedish count it as a letter of its own.
Latin small letter a with tilde U+00E3. The a with a tilde. In Portuguese it is a nasal vowel, alone or in the pairs ão and ãe; in Vietnamese it is a in the ngã tone.

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Latin capital letter a with breve and tilde U+1EB4. Capital ẵ.
Latin capital letter a with circumflex and tilde U+1EAA. Capital ẫ.
Latin small letter a with breve and tilde U+1EB5. ă with a tilde over the breve: the ngã tone.
Latin small letter a with circumflex and tilde U+1EAB. â with a tilde over the hat: the ngã tone.

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Latin capital letter a with breve and dot below U+1EB6. Capital ặ.
Latin capital letter a with circumflex and dot below U+1EAC. Capital ậ.
Latin capital letter a with diaeresis and macron U+01DE. Capital ǟ.
Latin capital letter a with dot above U+0226. Capital ȧ.
Latin capital letter a with dot above and macron U+01E0. Capital ǡ.
Latin capital letter a with dot below U+1EA0. Capital ạ.
Latin small letter a with breve and dot below U+1EB7. ă with a dot below: the nặng tone.
Latin small letter a with circumflex and dot below U+1EAD. â with a dot below: the nặng tone.
Latin small letter a with diaeresis and macron U+01DF. ä with a macron over the dots. Unicode's note on it names Livonian.
Latin small letter a with dot above U+0227. The a with one dot above. Added in Unicode 3.0, after every other letter in this table.
Latin small letter a with dot above and macron U+01E1. ȧ with a macron over the dot.
Latin small letter a with dot below U+1EA1. The a with a dot below: Vietnamese a in the nặng tone.

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Latin capital letter a with breve U+0102. Capital ă.
Latin capital letter a with breve and acute U+1EAE. Capital ắ.
Latin capital letter a with breve and grave U+1EB0. Capital ằ.
Latin capital letter a with breve and hook above U+1EB2. Capital ẳ.
Latin capital letter a with circumflex and acute U+1EA4. Capital ấ.
Latin capital letter a with circumflex and grave U+1EA6. Capital ầ.
Latin capital letter a with circumflex and hook above U+1EA8. Capital ẩ.
Latin capital letter a with hook above U+1EA2. Capital ả.
Latin small letter a with breve U+0103. The a with a breve, the mark Unicode also calls short: the second letter of the Romanian alphabet and of the Vietnamese one, where it is a short a.
Latin small letter a with breve and acute U+1EAF. ă with an acute accent over the breve: the short a of Vietnamese in the sắc tone.
Latin small letter a with breve and grave U+1EB1. ă with a grave accent over the breve: the huyền tone.
Latin small letter a with breve and hook above U+1EB3. ă with a hook above the breve: the hỏi tone.
Latin small letter a with circumflex and acute U+1EA5. â with an acute accent over the hat. In Vietnamese â is a letter of its own, and this is â in the sắc tone, the rising one.
Latin small letter a with circumflex and grave U+1EA7. â with a grave accent over the hat: the huyền tone, low and falling.
Latin small letter a with circumflex and hook above U+1EA9. â with a hook above the hat: the hỏi tone.
Latin small letter a with hook above U+1EA3. The a with a hook above: Vietnamese a in the hỏi tone.

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Latin capital letter a with caron U+01CD. Capital ǎ.
Latin capital letter a with double grave U+0200. Capital ȁ.
Latin capital letter a with inverted breve U+0202. Capital ȃ.
Latin capital letter a with ogonek U+0104. Capital ą.
Latin capital letter a with ring above and acute U+01FA. Capital ǻ.
Latin capital letter a with ring below U+1E00. Capital ḁ.
Latin small letter a with caron U+01CE. The a with a caron: the third tone of a in pinyin, whose four tones are ā, á, ǎ and à. Easily taken for ă, which carries a breve.
Latin small letter a with double grave U+0201. The a with two grave accents side by side. Unicode's note on the mark: Serbian and Croatian phonetics.
Latin small letter a with inverted breve U+0203. The a with an inverted breve, an arch over the letter. Unicode lists it with its additions for Slovenian.
Latin small letter a with ogonek U+0105. The a with an ogonek, a little tail under the letter. In Polish it follows a in the alphabet and never begins a word; Lithuanian has the letter too.
Latin small letter a with ring above and acute U+01FB. å with an acute accent over the ring.
Latin small letter a with ring below U+1E01. The a with the ring under the letter and not over it. Below a letter, the phonetic alphabet reads a ring as voiceless.

How this list was compiled: Names, and the code points they belong to, are checked against UnicodeData.txt, version 18.0.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/UnicodeData.txt), and printed in sentence case. The rows are every letter of that file whose decomposition, followed to its end, begins with the letter a or A: 58 letters. One more character decomposes that way, the angstrom sign U+212B, which is the letter Å over again and is left to its own page. Other names of a mark (hat, short), what a mark is used for, the languages a note names and the headings the letters are filed under follow NamesList.txt of the same version (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/NamesList.txt); the version a letter was added in is from DerivedAge.txt (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/DerivedAge.txt). Alt codes are from the code page 437 table (https://www.unicode.org/Public/MAPPINGS/VENDORS/MICSFT/PC/CP437.TXT) and the code page 1252 table (https://www.unicode.org/Public/MAPPINGS/VENDORS/MICSFT/WINDOWS/CP1252.TXT); a letter in neither has no Alt code here. That an Alt code is typed on the number pad, and that some programs read a number from 256 to 65,535 as a Unicode code point: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alt_code. Option keys are those of the U.S. keyboard layout as CLDR records it, its accent keys included (https://github.com/unicode-org/cldr/blob/release-42/keyboards/osx/en-t-k0-osx.xml); other layouts differ. The accent menu of a held key: https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/enter-characters-with-accent-marks-on-mac-mh27474/mac. HTML names are from https://html.spec.whatwg.org/entities.json. What each letter is used for, the French names of the accents, the pinyin tones and the Vietnamese tones: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%83, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%85, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%82, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%81, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%80, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%84, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C4%80, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C4%82, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C4%84, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acute_accent, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinyin and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnamese_alphabet; text that shows Ã and a second sign where one letter should be: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mojibake. All were read as wikitext on 2026-10-16 and are restated in this site's own words. The Start here group and the order of the rows are this site's own choice. Licence: own work (facts from the Unicode Character Database, Unicode License v3, and from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0, restated in this site's own words; other names and notes marked as Unicode's follow NamesList.txt, Copyright © 1991-2026 Unicode, Inc., https://www.unicode.org/license.txt)