A in Bubble Letters — Copy & Paste

The circled A is not just a bubble letter — it is one of the most recognised political symbols on earth. The circle-A (Ⓐ), an A enclosed in a ring, has stood for anarchism since the 1960s, when it spread from French and Italian activist groups across the world as shorthand for the movement. Its usual reading ties two ideas together: the A for anarchy, the O of the surrounding circle for order, echoing Pierre-Joseph Proudhon's line that 'anarchy is order'. Spray-painted on walls from Paris to São Paulo, it is probably the most-drawn circled letter in history.

The character you copy on this page, Ⓐ (U+24B6), is the neutral Unicode form of that shape — a circled capital A from the Enclosed Alphanumerics block, with no political payload of its own. But it is worth knowing what silhouette you are borrowing: in the right context, a circled A reads as a slogan, not a decoration.

Ⓐ opens the circled alphabet, sitting at code point U+24B6 with the lowercase ⓐ at U+24D0 — the letters run in order from there, A through Z, uppercase then lowercase. That tidy sequencing is unusual on this site: the script, Fraktur and other mathematical alphabets are riddled with holes where characters were encoded early and left out of the main run. The enclosed alphabet has no such gaps, because it was added to Unicode as one complete set drawn from East Asian typographic standards, where circled letters had long been standard list markers.

So the bubble A is doubly a 'first': the first letter of the alphabet and the opening character of its Unicode block — a clean starting point with none of the encoding archaeology that complicates the fancier styles.

Some letters fight their circles — the wide W has to compress, the narrow I floats in empty space. The A is an easier fit: its triangular mass sits centred in the ring and fills it evenly, which is part of why the capital Ⓐ reads so cleanly at small sizes. That legibility matters, because 'bubble letter a' pulls roughly ten thousand searches a month, most of them people building names and bios on phones.

A-names are everywhere (Ava, Aiden, Aria, Alex), so the Ⓐ does heavy monogram and name-lead duty. The lowercase ⓐ is the gentler option for lowercase-styled usernames; test your full name in the converter below to see the letters line up as an even row of rings.

Tap the cards above to copy Ⓐ (U+24B6) or ⓐ (U+24D0). Both are ordinary Unicode text and paste into bios, usernames and captions on any current device — just remember the circled capital carries a second life as a protest symbol, so read the room before dropping it into a serious profile.