U+0201 "ȁ" Latin Small Letter A with Double Grave Unicode Character
U+0201 "ȁ" Latin Small Letter A with Double Grave is a rare diacritic variant of the standard Latin letter "a", primarily used in certain linguistic contexts and historical or academic transcriptions. It features two grave accents stacked vertically above the letter, indicating a specific tonal or stress pattern in phonetic notation, such as in the representation of certain tone systems or in the transcription of languages like Romanian or other minority languages where double grave accents denote a falling-rising tone. This character is part of the Latin Extended-B block and is distinct from the more common single grave accented "à," serving specialized purposes in precise orthography or scholarly texts rather than in everyday modern writing.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0201 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Small Letter A with Double Grave |
| Block | Latin Extended-B |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "a" U+0061 Latin Small Letter A "̏" U+030F Combining Double Grave Accent |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ȁ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ȁ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xC8 0x81 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0201 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000201 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0201 |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Alphabetic |
| Lowercase | Yes |
| Simple Uppercase Code Point | "Ȁ" U+0200 Latin Capital Letter A with Double Grave |
| Simple Titlecase Code Point | "Ȁ" U+0200 Latin Capital Letter A with Double Grave |
| Uppercase Code Point | "Ȁ" U+0200 Latin Capital Letter A with Double Grave |
| Titlecase Code Point | "Ȁ" U+0200 Latin Capital Letter A with Double Grave |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Titlecased | Yes |
| Changes When Uppercased | Yes |
| 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 | Lower |