U+0264 "ɤ" Latin Small Letter Rams Horn Unicode Character

U+0264 "ɤ" Latin Small Letter Rams Horn is a phonetic symbol used primarily in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) to represent the close-mid back unrounded vowel, a sound found in languages such as Mandarin Chinese and Scottish Gaelic. Its glyph resembles a stylized ram's horn, from which it derives its name, and it is visually distinct from the similar-looking Greek letter gamma. This character is part of the IPA Extensions block in Unicode and is frequently employed in linguistic transcription to denote a specific vowel quality without lip rounding, contrasting with its rounded counterpart represented by the symbol for the close-mid back rounded vowel.

General Properties

Code Point	U+0264
Version Added	1.1
Name	Latin Small Letter Rams Horn
Unicode 1.0 Name	Latin Small Letter Baby Gamma
Block	IPA Extensions
General Category	Lowercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ɤ
HTML Hex Encoding	ɤ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xC9 0xA4
UTF-16 Encoding	0x0264
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00000264
C/C++/Java Escape	\u0264

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	"Ɤ" U+A7CB Latin Capital Letter Rams Horn
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"Ɤ" U+A7CB Latin Capital Letter Rams Horn
Uppercase Code Point	"Ɤ" U+A7CB Latin Capital Letter Rams Horn
Titlecase Code Point	"Ɤ" U+A7CB Latin Capital Letter Rams Horn
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