U+01E0 "Ǡ" Latin Capital Letter A with Dot Above and Macron Unicode Character
U+01E0 "Ǡ" Latin Capital Letter A with Dot Above and Macron is a composite glyph used primarily in certain orthographic systems for transcribing or transliterating languages, particularly in some Baltic languages like Lithuanian, where it represents a long or stressed vowel sound with additional articulatory detail. It combines a base Latin capital letter A with a combining dot above and a combining macron, the latter indicating a prolonged pronunciation. This character is distinct from the simple "A" and its other diacritic variants, as its specific combination of marks serves a phonetic purpose in linguistic notation or specialized text. While not common in everyday English or most modern typography, it is supported in Unicode for accurate representation of historical or scholarly written forms. Its inclusion ensures that digital text can faithfully reproduce such nuanced letters without relying on separate combining characters or font substitutions.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+01E0 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Capital Letter A with Dot Above and Macron |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Latin Capital Letter A Dot Macron |
| Block | Latin Extended-B |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "Ȧ" U+0226 Latin Capital Letter A with Dot Above "̄" U+0304 Combining Macron |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ǡ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ǡ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xC7 0xA0 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x01E0 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000001E0 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u01e0 |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Alphabetic |
| Uppercase | Yes |
| Simple Lowercase Code Point | "ǡ" U+01E1 Latin Small Letter A with Dot Above and Macron |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ǡ" U+01E1 Latin Small Letter A with Dot Above and Macron |
| Simple Case Folding | "ǡ" U+01E1 Latin Small Letter A with Dot Above and Macron |
| Case Folding | "ǡ" U+01E1 Latin Small Letter A with Dot Above and Macron |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ǡ" U+01E1 Latin Small Letter A with Dot Above and Macron |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ǡ" U+01E1 Latin Small Letter A with Dot Above and Macron |
| 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 |