Latin Capital Letter A
Part of Basic ASCII: Alt 33 to 126
On Windows, hold Alt and type 65 on the numeric keypad to insert latin capital letter a.
- Alt code
- Alt+65
- HTML entity
- A
- Unicode
- U+0041
About this symbol
A began as aleph, the first letter of the Phoenician alphabet, whose name meant ox. Its shape was an ox’s head with two horns; turn a capital A upside down and the horns are still there. The Greeks made it alpha, and the Romans passed it on to us.
Unicode facts
- Official name
- LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A
- Type
- Uppercase letter
- Unicode block
- Basic Latin
- Unicode group
- Uppercase Latin alphabet
- Added in
- Unicode 1.1 (1993)
Click the symbol or any value at the top of the page to copy it. See the full Basic ASCII: Alt 33 to 126 chart for related characters.