U00E3
U+00E3 is the Unicode code point for the Latin small letter a with tilde, written as ã. It belongs to the Latin-1 Supplement block, which consists of characters from U+0080 through U+00FF. The character ã is a Latin letter of the Latin alphabet, and it is written in many languages such as Portuguese, Galician, Malay, and Indonesian. In Portuguese it represents a nasalized vowel, whereas in Galician it also indicates nasalization. The character is often used in European Portuguese orthography, where it appears in words such as manhã (morning) and pão (bread).
The code point U+00E3 is encoded in UTF‑8 as the byte sequence C3 A3 and in UTF‑16
Historically, the tilde above the a in ã originated as a diacritic to indicate nasalization in the