U1E9A

U+1E9A (often written U1E9A in coding references) is a Unicode code point located in the Latin Extended Additional block. It is assigned to the Latin small letter A with right hook, with its uppercase counterpart typically listed as U+1E9B. The character is a specialized letter used in certain orthographies and linguistic transcriptions, rather than a widely used standard for national alphabets.

In Unicode, the official name for the code point is LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH RIGHT HOOK, and U+1E9B is the corresponding uppercase form, LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH RIGHT HOOK. The glyph appears as a lowercase a carrying a small hook on its right side, and its usage is largely confined to scholarly, minority-language orthographies, or phonetic transcription rather than everyday national languages.

Encoding details: in UTF-8, U+1E9A is encoded as the three-byte sequence E1 BA 96. In UTF-16, it is represented as 0x1E9A (big-endian) or 0x9A 0x1E (little-endian). In UTF-32, it is 0x00001E9A. The code point belongs to the Latin script and is categorized as a lowercase letter (general category Ll) in Unicode’s character properties, with a default direction of left-to-right.

As part of the Latin Extended Additional block, U+1E9A is one of many extended Latin letters added to support a broad range of languages and scholarly conventions. See also Unicode, the Latin Extended Additional block, and discussions of Latin script characters and their encoding forms.