U+0200 "Ȁ" Latin Capital Letter A with Double Grave Unicode Character
U+0200 "Ȁ" Latin Capital Letter A with Double Grave is a typographic variant of the standard capital letter A used primarily in the phonetic transcription of certain languages, most notably in older or specialized dictionaries for Serbo-Croatian and Slovenian to indicate a long falling tone. It features a double grave accent, which consists of two small strokes slanting downward to the right, positioned above the letter. This character is distinct from the more common single grave accent (À) and is part of the Latin Extended-B block, serving as a precise linguistic tool to represent specific tonal or stress patterns rather than a standard element of everyday writing. While it is encoded in Unicode for digital representation, its use is confined to academic or linguistic contexts where accurate phonetic notation is required.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0200 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Capital Letter A with Double Grave |
| Block | Latin Extended-B |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "A" U+0041 Latin Capital Letter A "̏" U+030F Combining Double Grave Accent |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ȁ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ȁ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xC8 0x80 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0200 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000200 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0200 |
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 | "ȁ" U+0201 Latin Small Letter A with Double Grave |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ȁ" U+0201 Latin Small Letter A with Double Grave |
| Simple Case Folding | "ȁ" U+0201 Latin Small Letter A with Double Grave |
| Case Folding | "ȁ" U+0201 Latin Small Letter A with Double Grave |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ȁ" U+0201 Latin Small Letter A with Double Grave |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ȁ" U+0201 Latin Small Letter A with Double Grave |
| 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 |