U+020A "Ȋ" Latin Capital Letter I with Inverted Breve Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+020A "Ȋ" Latin Capital Letter I with Inverted Breve is a modified version of the standard Latin letter I, distinguished by a diacritical mark called an inverted breve, which resembles a small curved line placed above the character. This glyph is primarily used in certain phonetic transcription systems and in the orthography of a few languages, such as in the Romanian or Croatian linguistic traditions, where it can indicate a specific vowel quality or tone, like a short or unstressed pronunciation. Encoded in the Unicode standard to support accurate digital representation of diverse writing systems, this character ensures that texts requiring this precise diacritic can be rendered consistently across different platforms and fonts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+020A |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Capital Letter I 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 | "I" U+0049 Latin Capital Letter I "̑" U+0311 Combining Inverted Breve |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ȋ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ȋ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xC8 0x8A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x020A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000020A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u020a |
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 | "ȋ" U+020B Latin Small Letter I with Inverted Breve |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ȋ" U+020B Latin Small Letter I with Inverted Breve |
| Simple Case Folding | "ȋ" U+020B Latin Small Letter I with Inverted Breve |
| Case Folding | "ȋ" U+020B Latin Small Letter I with Inverted Breve |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ȋ" U+020B Latin Small Letter I with Inverted Breve |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ȋ" U+020B Latin Small Letter I 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 |