Ring above: å, ů and U+030A

Uses and scope

Swedish, Danish and Norwegian use å as a letter. Czech ů has its own spelling history and differs from ú in written use. The same ring shape therefore does not establish the same linguistic role across these alphabets. [37], [40], [38], [28], [29], [4]

Similar shapes, different characters

Degree sign ° is not a ring accent. The angstrom sign Å has a canonical mapping to Å, a historical encoding relationship that normalization preserves through its equivalent form. That does not make a degree sign equivalent to Å. The spacing ring ˚ is also different from a combining ring attached to a base. [1], [2], [37], [40], [38], [28], [29], [4]

Typing and text forms

Copying is exact; preview circles are excluded. Compare normalization forms.

Word for Windows

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Mac and mobile

Hold a letter for supported variants; use Character Viewer on Mac or a language keyboard on mobile.

HTML

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Sources and method

Usage statements link to the authority that supports their scope. Character names, categories, combining classes and normalization results come from the pinned Unicode data. A canonical decomposition does not establish language membership or spelling frequency.

Source access date: 2026-09-14.

• [4] Unicode combining mark names and annotations. Names, cross references and narrowly attributed usage annotations. Historical annotations are not automatically current recommendations.
• [37] Swedish language council: placement of å. Swedish alphabetical order compared with Danish and Norwegian.
• [40] Danish Language Council: alphabetical order. Danish ordering rules and the relationship of aa and å.
• [38] Norwegian language council: æ, ø and å. Norwegian letters and limits of international substitutions.
• [28] Czech Language Institute: ú and ů. Czech spelling distinction between the two long-u letters.
• [29] Czech Language Institute: history of spelling. Historical origin of Czech diacritic conventions and ringed u.
• [1] Unicode Character Database 17.0.0.
• [2] Unicode normalization, UAX #15.
• [10] Microsoft: Unicode character entry in Word.
• [11] Apple: enter characters with accent marks.
• [12] Google: use Gboard.
• [13] Unicode: fonts and keyboards FAQ.
• [14] HTML numeric character references.

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