U+0252 "ɒ" Latin Small Letter Turned Alpha Unicode Character

U+0252 "ɒ" Latin Small Letter Turned Alpha is a typographic symbol used primarily in the International Phonetic Alphabet to represent the open back rounded vowel sound, as heard in the British English pronunciation of words like "lot" or "hot." Its shape is a rotated version of the lowercase Greek alpha, distinguishing it from the similar but unrounded character "ɑ" (the Latin small letter alpha). This character is encoded in the Latin Extended-B block of Unicode and is often employed in linguistic transcription and language learning materials to denote a specific vowel quality, particularly in descriptions of accents and dialects.

General Properties

Code Point	U+0252
Version Added	1.1
Name	Latin Small Letter Turned Alpha
Unicode 1.0 Name	Latin Small Letter Turned Script A
Block	IPA Extensions
General Category	Lowercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ɒ
HTML Hex Encoding	ɒ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xC9 0x92
UTF-16 Encoding	0x0252
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00000252
C/C++/Java Escape	\u0252

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
Lowercase	Yes
Simple Uppercase Code Point	"Ɒ" U+2C70 Latin Capital Letter Turned Alpha
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"Ɒ" U+2C70 Latin Capital Letter Turned Alpha
Uppercase Code Point	"Ɒ" U+2C70 Latin Capital Letter Turned Alpha
Titlecase Code Point	"Ɒ" U+2C70 Latin Capital Letter Turned Alpha
Cased	Yes
Changes When Casemapped	Yes
Changes When Titlecased	Yes
Changes When Uppercased	Yes
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	Lower