U+0248 "Ɉ" Latin Capital Letter J with Stroke Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
Ɉ
U+0248 "Ɉ" Latin Capital Letter J with Stroke is a typographic variant of the standard letter J, distinguished by a horizontal line drawn through its center, and it is primarily used in certain Latin-based orthographies for African languages, such as the Munda languages of India or in phonetic transcription systems, where it represents a specific sound, often a voiced palatal stop or affricate, distinct from the plain J. This character falls within the Latin Extended B block of Unicode and is notable for its role in precisely documenting linguistic diversity, ensuring that written texts accurately reflect the phonemic distinctions of languages that do not use the basic Latin alphabet.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0248 |
| Version Added | 5.0 |
| Name | Latin Capital Letter J with Stroke |
| Block | Latin Extended-B |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ɉ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ɉ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xC9 0x88 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0248 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000248 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0248 |
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 | "ɉ" U+0249 Latin Small Letter J with Stroke |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ɉ" U+0249 Latin Small Letter J with Stroke |
| Simple Case Folding | "ɉ" U+0249 Latin Small Letter J with Stroke |
| Case Folding | "ɉ" U+0249 Latin Small Letter J with Stroke |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ɉ" U+0249 Latin Small Letter J with Stroke |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ɉ" U+0249 Latin Small Letter J 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 |