How to type A with Tilde
To type A with Tilde (ã), press Alt + 0227 on Windows, holding Alt while typing the digits on the numeric keypad, or press Option + N, A on Mac, or write ã in HTML. On any system you can copy it from this page, or enter its codepoint U+00E3 directly: Ctrl+Shift+U then 00e3 on Linux, or 00e3 then Alt+X in Microsoft Word.
Latin Small Letter A With Tilde
- Copy it
- Unicode
- U+00E3
- Windows
- Alt + 0227
| Where | Shortcut | How |
|---|---|---|
| Windows | Alt + 0227 | Hold Alt and type the number on the numeric keypad. |
| Mac | Option + N, A | Press the keys together. |
| HTML | ã | Paste this into HTML source. |
| Unicode | U+00E3 | LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH TILDE |
Other accents symbols
ã lives in the Latin-1 Supplement block (U+0080-U+00FF), the accented letters and common signs Western European languages needed. Within Unicode it is classified as Ll, a lowercase letter. It has an uppercase counterpart and changes under case conversion. Its bidirectional class makes it left-to-right.
ã has a decomposed form: it can also be written as U+0061 Latin Small Letter A, U+0303 Combining Tilde. The two look identical and are not equal as strings, which is why a search for a word containing ã sometimes fails against text that was typed on a different system. Everything on this site uses the single-codepoint (NFC) form shown here.
Its uppercase counterpart is à (U+00C3). They are separate codepoints, so a byte comparison treats them as different characters even though a case-insensitive search does not.
Typing ã without switching keyboard
ã is the letter A carrying a tilde, and it is needed in Spanish and Portuguese. It is one character rather than two: a spell checker treats it as a letter of those alphabets, not as A with something added.
Both of the routes worth knowing compose the letter rather than looking it up. On a Mac press Option + N, let go, then press a: nothing appears until the second key, because the first one is a dead key waiting for a letter to sit under. On Windows the same idea needs the United States-International layout, which turns Shift + backtick into the same dead key. Add that layout once under Language and region, and ã costs two keystrokes from then on rather than four digits on a numeric keypad.
What Unicode says about A with Tilde
Unicode annotates ã directly. Against U+00E3 the code chart carries the note “Portuguese”. That is the standard saying what the character is for, rather than an inference from its name.
How A with Tilde behaves in software
ã takes one column in a terminal. It is a left-to-right character, so it holds that direction even inside a right-to-left paragraph.
What people ask about A with Tilde
How to type a with tilde?
You can press Alt + 0227 on Windows, with Num Lock on and the digits typed on the numeric keypad, or press Option + N, A on Mac. Either produces ã.
Every way to write A with Tilde
| Form | Value |
|---|---|
| Codepoint | U+00E3 |
| Decimal | 227 |
| UTF-8 bytes | C3 A3 |
| UTF-16 bytes | 00 E3 |
| HTML entity | ã |
| HTML numeric | ã or ã |
| CSS | \00E3 |
| JavaScript | \u00E3 |
| Python | \u00E3 |
| URL-encoded | %C3%A3 |
| SVG | 00E3.svg · (SIL Open Font License) |
If ã arrives as ã
That is this exact character, undamaged: its two UTF-8 bytes C3 A3 are being read one at a time as Windows-1252. The Latin-1 range is where this happens most, because it is the range every legacy system thought it already handled. Nothing is lost, and retyping will not help: the fix is at the reading end, which has to be told the text is UTF-8. An empty rectangle is the opposite complaint, and means the encoding is right and the font has no glyph for U+00E3.