A with Accent (áÁ-àÀ-ȧȦ) | Accented A Capital Lowercase with ALT Code

Tap any accented A to copy it. All 67 A with accent, lowercase and capital, with ALT codes, Unicode and HTML entities.

A with accent letters include à with a grave accent, á with an acute accent, â with a circumflex, ã with a tilde and ä with a diaeresis or umlaut. Tap any accented A below to copy it, in lowercase or uppercase.

To type accented a rather than copy it, use the ALT code beside each character: Alt+0225 gives á, Alt+0193 gives Á. Every accented A here also carries its Unicode point, decimal value, hexadecimal value and HTML entity.

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Accented A Copy and Paste: A With Accent ALT Code List

Tap a letter to copy it and see all its codes, then paste with Ctrl+V on Windows or Cmd+V on Mac. Only 14 have a working ALT code, such as Alt+0225 for á and Alt+0193 for Á. The other 53 need the Alt+X method in Word, or a quick copy from here.

Small Letter a With Accent: Lowercase Accented a

34 lowercase letters

Capital Letter A With Accent: Uppercase Accented A

33 capital letters. Each has its own code, so a capital is never the lowercase code with Shift held.

How to Type A With an Accent: ALT Codes, Mac, Word and Mobile

A is easier than most letters: its common accented forms all sit in the Windows-1252 set, so ALT codes cover most everyday needs. Pick your device.

Windows ALT codes

Put the cursor where the letter should go.
Hold Alt down for the whole sequence.
Type the four digits on the numeric keypad, for example 0225. Nothing appears yet.
Let go of Alt and á appears.

The number row above the letters will not work. On a laptop without a keypad, switch on the built-in one with Fn+Num Lock first. Always type the leading zero: without it, Windows reads the old DOS code page and gives a different symbol.

Word and Outlook

This works for all 67 letters, including the ones with no ALT code.

Type the four-character code on the normal keys, for example 0101 for ā.
With the cursor right after it, press Alt+X.
The code turns into the letter. Press Alt+X again to turn it back.

Each letter’s code is in the letter panel above and in the table further down: 0101 is ā, 0103 is ă, 0105 is ą and 01CE is ǎ.

Word shortcuts for the common forms

Word shortcuts for accented a
Letters	Shortcut
á Á	`Ctrl`+`'`, then a
à À	`Ctrl`+`, then a
â Â	`Ctrl`+`Shift`+`^`, then a
ä Ä	`Ctrl`+`Shift`+`:`, then a
ã Ã	`Ctrl`+`Shift`+`~`, then a
å Å	`Ctrl`+`Shift`+`@`, then a
æ Æ	`Ctrl`+`Shift`+`&`, then a

Press the first part, let go, then type the letter. Type A instead of a for the capital.

Mac

Hold Option and press the key for the mark, let go of both, then type a. Hold Shift as well for the capital.

Mac Option key shortcuts for accented a
Letters	Shortcut
á Á	`Option`+`E`, then a
à À	`Option`+`, then a
â Â	`Option`+`I`, then a
ä Ä	`Option`+`U`, then a
ã Ã	`Option`+`N`, then a
å Å	`Option`+`A`
æ Æ	`Option`+`'`

You can also hold down the a key. A picker opens above the cursor with à á â ä æ ã å ā, and each has a number you can press.

iPhone and Android

Press and hold the a key. A row of accented versions appears above your finger: slide onto the one you want and lift.

The row only shows forms your keyboard languages use. To get Vietnamese ặ or Romanian ă, add that language in your keyboard settings.

HTML, CSS and JavaScript

On a page with <meta charset="utf-8"> you can paste the letter directly. Use a code only where the raw character might not survive.

Code forms for á and ā
Where	á	ā
HTML named entity	`á`	`&amacr;`
HTML number	`á`	`ā`
CSS content	`"\00E1"`	`"\0101"`
JavaScript, Java, Python	`"\u00E1"`	`"\u0101"`

Accented A by Language: French, Spanish, Portuguese and More

Each language uses only a few accented A letters. Open yours to copy its exact set, lowercase and capital, with a note on anything that behaves differently from how it looks.

French

à tells the preposition à (to) apart from the verb a (has). â usually marks a lost s, as in âne, once asne. æ appears only in a few borrowed Latin words such as ex æquo.

Spanish

á marks stress where a word breaks the usual rule, as in está and mamá.

Portuguese

ã marks a nasal vowel, as in irmã and São Paulo. à appears only where the preposition a merges with the article a.

Italian

à sits on a stressed final vowel, as in città and già.

Catalan

Catalan uses the grave, not the acute, on a stressed a, as in català.

German

Ä is a vowel in its own right, as in Mädchen. Where the letter is not available, write ae.

Swedish and Finnish

In Swedish, å and ä are separate letters that sort after z. Finnish uses ä constantly and å only in Swedish names.

Norwegian and Danish

æ and å are separate letters, and the alphabet ends æ, ø, å.

Icelandic and Faroese

á and æ are letters of their own. Icelandic á sounds like the ow in cow.

Polish and Lithuanian

ą is a nasal vowel. In Polish it never begins a word.

Latvian

The macron marks a long vowel, and dropping it can change the word.

Māori and Hawaiian

The macron, called a tohutō in Māori and kahakō in Hawaiian, marks a long vowel.

Czech and Slovak

Czech á is a long a. Slovak uses á and ä, where ä is heard as a sound between a and e.

Hungarian

á is a separate letter of the Hungarian alphabet, not just a long a.

Romanian

ă is the schwa sound. â spells the same sound as î, but inside a word.

Welsh

The circumflex, called to bach, marks a long vowel, as in tân (fire).

Vietnamese

ă and â are letters of their own. The five tone marks stack on top of them, giving forms such as ấ and ặ.

Mandarin pinyin

The four tones of a: ā first, á second, ǎ third and à fourth.

Livonian

One of the few living languages that uses ǟ, a with both a diaeresis and a macron.

Croatian and Serbian dictionaries

Used only in dictionaries and linguistics to mark pitch accent. Everyday spelling writes a plain a.

Old English and phonetics

ǣ and ǽ mark a long or stressed æ in Old English teaching texts. The rest appear in phonetic transcription and older scholarly writing.

Accented A Unicode, HTML Entity and ALT Code Table

Every code for every accented A, for when the letter cannot travel as a pasted character: a CSS content property, a script, a config file or a database still set to latin1. Tap any code to copy it. On a phone, swipe the table sideways.

Show codes for all 67 letters

Codes for all 67 accented A letters
Name	Unicode	ALT code	HTML entity	HTML decimal	CSS	JS, Java, Python
a with grave	`U+00E0`	`Alt+0224`	`à`	`à`	`\00E0`	`\u00E0`
A with grave	`U+00C0`	`Alt+0192`	`À`	`À`	`\00C0`	`\u00C0`
a with acute	`U+00E1`	`Alt+0225`	`á`	`á`	`\00E1`	`\u00E1`
A with acute	`U+00C1`	`Alt+0193`	`Á`	`Á`	`\00C1`	`\u00C1`
a with circumflex	`U+00E2`	`Alt+0226`	`â`	`â`	`\00E2`	`\u00E2`
A with circumflex	`U+00C2`	`Alt+0194`	`Â`	`Â`	`\00C2`	`\u00C2`
a with tilde	`U+00E3`	`Alt+0227`	`ã`	`ã`	`\00E3`	`\u00E3`
A with tilde	`U+00C3`	`Alt+0195`	`Ã`	`Ã`	`\00C3`	`\u00C3`
a with diaeresis	`U+00E4`	`Alt+0228`	`ä`	`ä`	`\00E4`	`\u00E4`
A with diaeresis	`U+00C4`	`Alt+0196`	`Ä`	`Ä`	`\00C4`	`\u00C4`
a with ring above	`U+00E5`	`Alt+0229`	`å`	`å`	`\00E5`	`\u00E5`
A with ring above	`U+00C5`	`Alt+0197`	`Å`	`Å`	`\00C5`	`\u00C5`
ae	`U+00E6`	`Alt+0230`	`æ`	`æ`	`\00E6`	`\u00E6`
AE	`U+00C6`	`Alt+0198`	`Æ`	`Æ`	`\00C6`	`\u00C6`
a with macron	`U+0101`	none	`&amacr;`	`ā`	`\0101`	`\u0101`
A with macron	`U+0100`	none	`&Amacr;`	`Ā`	`\0100`	`\u0100`
a with breve	`U+0103`	none	`&abreve;`	`ă`	`\0103`	`\u0103`
A with breve	`U+0102`	none	`&Abreve;`	`Ă`	`\0102`	`\u0102`
a with ogonek	`U+0105`	none	`&aogon;`	`ą`	`\0105`	`\u0105`
A with ogonek	`U+0104`	none	`&Aogon;`	`Ą`	`\0104`	`\u0104`
a with caron	`U+01CE`	none	`ǎ`	`ǎ`	`\01CE`	`\u01CE`
A with caron	`U+01CD`	none	`Ǎ`	`Ǎ`	`\01CD`	`\u01CD`
a with diaeresis and macron	`U+01DF`	none	`ǟ`	`ǟ`	`\01DF`	`\u01DF`
A with diaeresis and macron	`U+01DE`	none	`Ǟ`	`Ǟ`	`\01DE`	`\u01DE`
a with dot above and macron	`U+01E1`	none	`ǡ`	`ǡ`	`\01E1`	`\u01E1`
A with dot above and macron	`U+01E0`	none	`Ǡ`	`Ǡ`	`\01E0`	`\u01E0`
ae with macron	`U+01E3`	none	`ǣ`	`ǣ`	`\01E3`	`\u01E3`
AE with macron	`U+01E2`	none	`Ǣ`	`Ǣ`	`\01E2`	`\u01E2`
a with ring above and acute	`U+01FB`	none	`ǻ`	`ǻ`	`\01FB`	`\u01FB`
A with ring above and acute	`U+01FA`	none	`Ǻ`	`Ǻ`	`\01FA`	`\u01FA`
ae with acute	`U+01FD`	none	`ǽ`	`ǽ`	`\01FD`	`\u01FD`
AE with acute	`U+01FC`	none	`Ǽ`	`Ǽ`	`\01FC`	`\u01FC`
a with double grave	`U+0201`	none	`ȁ`	`ȁ`	`\0201`	`\u0201`
A with double grave	`U+0200`	none	`Ȁ`	`Ȁ`	`\0200`	`\u0200`
a with inverted breve	`U+0203`	none	`ȃ`	`ȃ`	`\0203`	`\u0203`
A with inverted breve	`U+0202`	none	`Ȃ`	`Ȃ`	`\0202`	`\u0202`
a with dot above	`U+0227`	none	`ȧ`	`ȧ`	`\0227`	`\u0227`
A with dot above	`U+0226`	none	`Ȧ`	`Ȧ`	`\0226`	`\u0226`
a with ring below	`U+1E01`	none	`ḁ`	`ḁ`	`\1E01`	`\u1E01`
A with ring below	`U+1E00`	none	`Ḁ`	`Ḁ`	`\1E00`	`\u1E00`
a with right half ring	`U+1E9A`	none	`ẚ`	`ẚ`	`\1E9A`	`\u1E9A`
a with dot below	`U+1EA1`	none	`ạ`	`ạ`	`\1EA1`	`\u1EA1`
A with dot below	`U+1EA0`	none	`Ạ`	`Ạ`	`\1EA0`	`\u1EA0`
a with hook above	`U+1EA3`	none	`ả`	`ả`	`\1EA3`	`\u1EA3`
A with hook above	`U+1EA2`	none	`Ả`	`Ả`	`\1EA2`	`\u1EA2`
a with circumflex and acute	`U+1EA5`	none	`ấ`	`ấ`	`\1EA5`	`\u1EA5`
A with circumflex and acute	`U+1EA4`	none	`Ấ`	`Ấ`	`\1EA4`	`\u1EA4`
a with circumflex and grave	`U+1EA7`	none	`ầ`	`ầ`	`\1EA7`	`\u1EA7`
A with circumflex and grave	`U+1EA6`	none	`Ầ`	`Ầ`	`\1EA6`	`\u1EA6`
a with circumflex and hook above	`U+1EA9`	none	`ẩ`	`ẩ`	`\1EA9`	`\u1EA9`
A with circumflex and hook above	`U+1EA8`	none	`Ẩ`	`Ẩ`	`\1EA8`	`\u1EA8`
a with circumflex and tilde	`U+1EAB`	none	`ẫ`	`ẫ`	`\1EAB`	`\u1EAB`
A with circumflex and tilde	`U+1EAA`	none	`Ẫ`	`Ẫ`	`\1EAA`	`\u1EAA`
a with circumflex and dot below	`U+1EAD`	none	`ậ`	`ậ`	`\1EAD`	`\u1EAD`
A with circumflex and dot below	`U+1EAC`	none	`Ậ`	`Ậ`	`\1EAC`	`\u1EAC`
a with breve and acute	`U+1EAF`	none	`ắ`	`ắ`	`\1EAF`	`\u1EAF`
A with breve and acute	`U+1EAE`	none	`Ắ`	`Ắ`	`\1EAE`	`\u1EAE`
a with breve and grave	`U+1EB1`	none	`ằ`	`ằ`	`\1EB1`	`\u1EB1`
A with breve and grave	`U+1EB0`	none	`Ằ`	`Ằ`	`\1EB0`	`\u1EB0`
a with breve and hook above	`U+1EB3`	none	`ẳ`	`ẳ`	`\1EB3`	`\u1EB3`
A with breve and hook above	`U+1EB2`	none	`Ẳ`	`Ẳ`	`\1EB2`	`\u1EB2`
a with breve and tilde	`U+1EB5`	none	`ẵ`	`ẵ`	`\1EB5`	`\u1EB5`
A with breve and tilde	`U+1EB4`	none	`Ẵ`	`Ẵ`	`\1EB4`	`\u1EB4`
a with breve and dot below	`U+1EB7`	none	`ặ`	`ặ`	`\1EB7`	`\u1EB7`
A with breve and dot below	`U+1EB6`	none	`Ặ`	`Ặ`	`\1EB6`	`\u1EB6`
a with stroke	`U+2C65`	none	`ⱥ`	`ⱥ`	`\2C65`	`\u2C65`
A with stroke	`U+023A`	none	`Ⱥ`	`Ⱥ`	`\023A`	`\u023A`

Letters without an ALT code can still be typed in Word with their Unicode value and Alt+X. The JavaScript form also works in Java, Python, C# and JSON.

Accented A FAQ: ALT Codes, Copy Paste and Unicode

How do I type a with an accent?

On Windows, hold Alt and type the code on the numeric keypad: Alt+0224 for à, Alt+0225 for á, Alt+0226 for â. On a Mac, press Option+E and then a for á. On a phone, press and hold the a key and slide onto the version you want. Or tap any letter on this page to copy it.

What is the ALT code for á?

Alt+0225. Hold Alt, type 0225 on the numeric keypad, then let go. The number row above the letters will not work. The capital Á has its own code, Alt+0193, so it is not the lowercase code with Shift held.

What is the ALT code for ā, ă or ą?

They have no working ALT code. ALT codes only reach the Windows-1252 set, which ends at 0255, and ā, ă and ą sit above it. In Word or Outlook, type 0101, 0103 or 0105 and press Alt+X. Anywhere else, copy the letter from this page.

What is the difference between á and à?

The marks lean in opposite directions and do different jobs. The acute on á usually marks stress or a long vowel, as in Spanish, Czech and Hungarian. The grave on à marks a lower pitch or an open vowel, mostly in French, Italian, Portuguese and Catalan. Swapping one for the other is a spelling error.

Is å the same letter as a?

No. In Swedish, Norwegian and Danish, å is a separate letter that sorts after z and has its own section in the dictionary. Software that treats it as a plain a puts sorted lists in the wrong order.

Which languages use A with an accent?

French, Spanish, Portuguese, German, the Nordic languages, Polish, Czech, Hungarian, Romanian and Vietnamese are the main ones. The language list above shows the exact letters each one needs, and most writers only ever use four or five of them.

Why does an accented A show as an empty box?

The letter is correct, but the font on screen does not contain it, so your device shows a placeholder. It happens most with the rarer forms such as ǡ or ⱥ. Switch to a font with wide Latin coverage, such as Noto Serif, Arial or Calibri. The text itself is fine and will paste correctly elsewhere.

Should I use a precomposed accented A or a combining mark?

Use the precomposed letter, which is what every entry on this page is. A plain a followed by a separate combining mark looks the same but counts as two characters, which breaks search, sorting and spell check, and creates duplicate records in databases.