U+023A "Ⱥ" Latin Capital Letter A with Stroke Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
Ⱥ
U+023A "Ⱥ" Latin Capital Letter A with Stroke is a typographic variant of the letter A distinguished by a horizontal line drawn through its middle, a diacritical mark known as a stroke. This character is primarily used in the Saanich writing system, an indigenous language of the North Straits Salish peoples in British Columbia, Canada, where it represents a specific vowel sound distinct from the plain letter A. It also appears in certain orthographies for other languages and in specialized phonetic transcription systems. The stroke modifies the base letter to indicate a different phonetic value, making it an essential component for accurately representing these linguistic sounds in written form.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+023A |
| Version Added | 4.1 |
| Name | Latin Capital Letter A with Stroke |
| Block | Latin Extended-B |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ⱥ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ⱥ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xC8 0xBA |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x023A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000023A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u023a |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Alphabetic |
| Uppercase | Yes |
| Simple Lowercase Code Point | "ⱥ" U+2C65 Latin Small Letter A with Stroke |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ⱥ" U+2C65 Latin Small Letter A with Stroke |
| Simple Case Folding | "ⱥ" U+2C65 Latin Small Letter A with Stroke |
| Case Folding | "ⱥ" U+2C65 Latin Small Letter A with Stroke |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ⱥ" U+2C65 Latin Small Letter A with Stroke |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ⱥ" U+2C65 Latin Small Letter A with Stroke |
| 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 |