U+0226 "Ȧ" Latin Capital Letter A with Dot Above Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+0226 "Ȧ" Latin Capital Letter A with Dot Above is a precomposed Latin letter used primarily in historical or phonetic transcription contexts, where it represents the letter "A" modified by a diacritical dot placed above it. This character was once part of the Romanian alphabet in the 19th century to indicate a specific vowel sound, though it has largely fallen out of modern standard usage in favor of other representations. In Unicode, it belongs to the Latin Extended-B block and is encoded separately from the combination of a base "A" combined with a combining dot above (U+0307), ensuring it maintains a distinct code point for compatibility with legacy systems and precise textual rendering.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0226 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Latin Capital Letter A with Dot Above |
| 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+0307 Combining Dot Above |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ȧ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ȧ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xC8 0xA6 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0226 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000226 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0226 |
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 | "ȧ" U+0227 Latin Small Letter A with Dot Above |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ȧ" U+0227 Latin Small Letter A with Dot Above |
| Simple Case Folding | "ȧ" U+0227 Latin Small Letter A with Dot Above |
| Case Folding | "ȧ" U+0227 Latin Small Letter A with Dot Above |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ȧ" U+0227 Latin Small Letter A with Dot Above |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ȧ" U+0227 Latin Small Letter A with Dot Above |
| 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 |