Hiragana Letter A

Group: CJK & kana

Keywords

About this character

Hiragana Letter A belongs to the CJK & kana group and is encoded at U+3042. It was added in Unicode 0.0.

Shortcode

Chat apps such as Slack, Discord and GitHub accept this shortcode instead of the character itself.

Technical codes

Code point: U+3042
Hex: 3042
Decimal: 12354
HTML: あ
CSS: \3042
JavaScript: \u3042
Python: \u3042
UTF-8: E3 81 82

The same character is drawn differently by each operating system and font.

Ideographic Comma U+3001 Similar
Ideographic Full Stop U+3002 Similar
Ditto Mark U+3003 Similar
Japanese Industrial Standard Symbol U+3004 Similar
Ideographic Iteration Mark U+3005 Similar
Ideographic Closing Mark U+3006 Similar
Left Angle Bracket U+3008 Similar
Right Angle Bracket U+3009 Similar
Left Double Angle Bracket U+300A Similar
Right Double Angle Bracket U+300B Similar
Left Corner Bracket U+300C Similar
Right Corner Bracket U+300D Similar
Left White Corner Bracket U+300E Similar
Right White Corner Bracket U+300F Similar
Left Black Lenticular Bracket U+3010 Similar
Right Black Lenticular Bracket U+3011 Similar
Postal Mark U+3012 Similar
Geta Mark U+3013 Similar
Left Tortoise Shell Bracket U+3014 Similar
Right Tortoise Shell Bracket U+3015 Similar
Left White Lenticular Bracket U+3016 Similar
Right White Lenticular Bracket U+3017 Similar
Left White Tortoise Shell Bracket U+3018 Similar
Right White Tortoise Shell Bracket U+3019 Similar

Questions

Why does this emoji look different on my phone?

Unicode standardises the meaning of a character, not its drawing. Apple, Google, Microsoft and Samsung each ship their own artwork, so the same code point changes shape between devices.

Does copying work everywhere?

The character is copied as plain text, so it pastes into any app that accepts text. If the receiving app has no font for it, you will see an empty box instead.