U+0196 "Ɩ" Latin Capital Letter Iota Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+0196 "Ɩ" Latin Capital Letter Iota is a glyph used primarily in the International Phonetic Alphabet and in the orthographies of certain African languages, representing a high central unrounded vowel or a sound similar to a barred i. Its visual form resembles an uppercase I without a dot, often featuring a slight hook at the bottom or a serif-less straight stem, and it is distinct from the Greek letter iota. In linguistic contexts, this character functions as a vowel symbol, and its lowercase counterpart is U+0269 "ɩ".
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0196 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Capital Letter Iota |
| Block | Latin Extended-B |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ɩ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ɩ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xC6 0x96 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0196 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000196 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0196 |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Alphabetic |
| Uppercase | Yes |
| Simple Lowercase Code Point | "ɩ" U+0269 Latin Small Letter Iota |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ɩ" U+0269 Latin Small Letter Iota |
| Simple Case Folding | "ɩ" U+0269 Latin Small Letter Iota |
| Case Folding | "ɩ" U+0269 Latin Small Letter Iota |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ɩ" U+0269 Latin Small Letter Iota |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ɩ" U+0269 Latin Small Letter Iota |
| Script | Latin |
| Script Extensions | Latin |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| ID Start | Yes |
| XID Start | Yes |
| ID Continue | Yes |
| XID Continue | Yes |
| Alphabetic | Yes |
| Vertical Orientation | Rotated |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Alphabetic letter |
| Sentence Break | Upper |