U+01A2 "Ƣ" Latin Capital Letter Oi Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+01A2 "Ƣ" Latin Capital Letter Oi is a historic typographic glyph used primarily in Old Norse and some early modern linguistic transcriptions to represent a diphthong or ligature of the letters O and I, often pronounced like the “oy” sound in the English word “boy.” This character was included in Unicode to support the accurate digital representation of medieval and philological texts, particularly those dealing with Germanic languages and orthographic traditions. Despite its limited modern use, it remains important for scholars working with historical manuscripts and etymological studies, ensuring that specialized academic content can be encoded without loss of fidelity.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+01A2 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Capital Letter Oi |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Latin Capital Letter O I |
| Block | Latin Extended-B |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Alias | LATIN CAPITAL LETTER GHA (correction) |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ƣ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ƣ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xC6 0xA2 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x01A2 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000001A2 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u01a2 |
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 | "ƣ" U+01A3 Latin Small Letter Oi |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ƣ" U+01A3 Latin Small Letter Oi |
| Simple Case Folding | "ƣ" U+01A3 Latin Small Letter Oi |
| Case Folding | "ƣ" U+01A3 Latin Small Letter Oi |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ƣ" U+01A3 Latin Small Letter Oi |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ƣ" U+01A3 Latin Small Letter Oi |
| 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 |