U+0241 "Ɂ" Latin Capital Letter Glottal Stop Unicode Character
U+0241 "Ɂ" Latin Capital Letter Glottal Stop is a typographic symbol representing the glottal stop sound, a consonant produced by closing the vocal cords. It is distinct from the similar-looking digit "1" or an uppercase "I" and is primarily used in the orthographies of certain indigenous languages of the Americas, such as those in the Na-Dene and Salishan families. In the International Phonetic Alphabet, the glottal stop is typically written with the lowercase form "ʔ" (U+0294), but the uppercase version "Ɂ" serves a specific function in written language to indicate the sound at the start of a word or in a capitalized context. This character ensures accurate transcription and preservation of phonetic distinctions in linguistic documentation and educational materials.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0241 |
| Version Added | 4.1 |
| Name | Latin Capital Letter Glottal Stop |
| Block | Latin Extended-B |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ɂ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ɂ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xC9 0x81 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0241 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000241 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0241 |
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 | "ɂ" U+0242 Latin Small Letter Glottal Stop |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ɂ" U+0242 Latin Small Letter Glottal Stop |
| Simple Case Folding | "ɂ" U+0242 Latin Small Letter Glottal Stop |
| Case Folding | "ɂ" U+0242 Latin Small Letter Glottal Stop |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ɂ" U+0242 Latin Small Letter Glottal Stop |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ɂ" U+0242 Latin Small Letter Glottal Stop |
| 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 |