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combining ring above

Combining Ring Above

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To add an overring, type the base letter first and this mark after it. The sequence can spell Scandinavian å or Czech ů, but its reading depends on the letter and language. By itself, the mark is unfinished text.

Text symbol

What ̊ means

Type the base letter first, then this ring diacritic.

In a text editor that supports Unicode (the standard computers use to encode text), enter the base letter—the one being changed—then insert the overring. A decomposed å stores the letter and ring as a sequence, even when a font draws them as one ringed letter.

The Scandinavian letter Å/å grew from older aa spelling, compressing those two letters into one form. A Swedish language authority explains the ring as a small o over a; a Norwegian typography account gives a competing explanation based on an a. A Scandinavian printed example is dated 1526. Czech ů has a separate history: it marks long u and preserves an older o/uo spelling connection.

Why is my ring floating or turning into Å?

The base controls placement; A plus ring may become Å.

This mark is positioned relative to the preceding base, so fonts may show it awkwardly when the base is missing. Unicode's fallback for displaying an isolated mark places it over a no-break space. NFC normalization, a rule for combining equivalent text sequences, can represent A followed by this mark as Å.

This mark belongs in spelling and typesetting; by itself, it has no letter to change.

Treat a lone mark as unfinished text; ask which letter it belongs to.

Part of the collection

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Zalgo & Glitch Text Characters
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What it means when someone sends it to you

3 readings

It is incomplete text; ask which letter it was meant to modify.

Don't confuse it with

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˚
Ring Above
The spacing ring occupies its own character position; this combining mark attaches to a base.
°
Degree Sign
The degree sign marks a unit or angle; it is not an accent on the preceding letter.
Å
Latin Capital Letter A With Ring Above
A complete capital A-with-ring letter encoded as one character; it may result from normalizing A plus this mark.
Å
Angstrom Sign
The angstrom sign is a unit symbol for a tiny length, canonically linked to Å; it is not a combining mark.

Questions people ask

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Why does ̊ show as a box on some devices?

Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.

How to type or find ̊

Search it as
overring · ring diacritic · a with ring · u with ring · angstrom sign
Shows up in
Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
⎇Alt+XType 030A, then AltX to get ̊.
Windows
⊞Win+Rrun charmap for the full table, or use the emoji picker's Ω symbols tab (Win .).
macOS
⌃Control+⌘Command+␣SpaceOpen the character viewer and search “combining ring above”.
Linux
⎈Ctrl+⇧Shift+UType 030a, then Enter or Space.
HTML
̊
CSS
\030A
Unicode hex
Insert U030A after the base letter using an editor with Unicode-hex input.
HTML
For HTML, place ̊ or ̊ immediately after the base, as in å.
Ready-made letters
For Scandinavian å or Czech ů, use the ready-made letter when your keyboard layout offers one.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
̊
HTML hex
̊
CSS content
content: "\030A";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%CC%8A
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On screen
1
Code points
1
JS .length
2
UTF-8 bytes

A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.

Families this belongs to

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