U+019C "Ɯ" Latin Capital Letter Turned M Unicode Character
U+019C "Ɯ" Latin Capital Letter Turned M is a visually distinctive letterform created by rotating a standard capital M one hundred and eighty degrees, making it resemble a reversed or mirrored W. It is primarily used in the International Phonetic Alphabet to represent a close back unrounded vowel, articulated similarly to the vowel sound in the English word "goose" but without rounding the lips. This character also appears in some orthographies for African languages, such as the Dan language of Côte d'Ivoire and Liberia, where it serves as a distinct letter in their writing systems. Historically, it was employed in early phonetic texts and alphabets for indigenous languages, though it remains relatively rare in modern typography outside specialized linguistic contexts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+019C |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Capital Letter Turned M |
| Block | Latin Extended-B |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ɯ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ɯ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xC6 0x9C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x019C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000019C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u019c |
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 | "ɯ" U+026F Latin Small Letter Turned M |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ɯ" U+026F Latin Small Letter Turned M |
| Simple Case Folding | "ɯ" U+026F Latin Small Letter Turned M |
| Case Folding | "ɯ" U+026F Latin Small Letter Turned M |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ɯ" U+026F Latin Small Letter Turned M |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ɯ" U+026F Latin Small Letter Turned M |
| 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 |