U+0202 "Ȃ" Latin Capital Letter A with Inverted Breve Unicode Character
U+0202 "Ȃ" Latin Capital Letter A with Inverted Breve is a specialized glyph used primarily in phonetic transcription and certain Latin-based orthographies to represent a modified vowel sound. It consists of a standard uppercase letter A combined with an inverted breve diacritic (a small curved mark pointing downward) placed above it, which indicates a specific type of short or reduced articulation. While it is not commonly found in everyday modern text, this character appears in scholarly linguistic works, such as those documenting Romanian or Slavic dialects, where it distinguishes nuanced pronunciations. Its inclusion in the Unicode standard ensures that this precise symbol can be reliably encoded, displayed, and exchanged across digital platforms for academic and specialized writing purposes.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0202 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Capital Letter A with Inverted Breve |
| 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+0311 Combining Inverted Breve |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ȃ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ȃ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xC8 0x82 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0202 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000202 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0202 |
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 | "ȃ" U+0203 Latin Small Letter A with Inverted Breve |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ȃ" U+0203 Latin Small Letter A with Inverted Breve |
| Simple Case Folding | "ȃ" U+0203 Latin Small Letter A with Inverted Breve |
| Case Folding | "ȃ" U+0203 Latin Small Letter A with Inverted Breve |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ȃ" U+0203 Latin Small Letter A with Inverted Breve |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ȃ" U+0203 Latin Small Letter A with Inverted Breve |
| 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 |