U+0269 "ɩ" Latin Small Letter Iota Unicode Character

U+0269 "ɩ" Latin Small Letter Iota is a distinct typographic symbol that represents a small capital iota, originally derived from the Greek alphabet and historically used in the International Phonetic Alphabet to denote a near-close near-front unrounded vowel, though it has since been largely replaced by the symbol "ɪ" in modern IPA usage. This character is still occasionally employed in linguistic transcription, particularly for African languages and some scholarly works, and it belongs to the Unicode block Latin Extended B, where it serves as a separate glyph from the standard Latin letter "i" or the Greek iota.

General Properties

Code Point	U+0269
Version Added	1.1
Name	Latin Small Letter Iota
Block	IPA Extensions
General Category	Lowercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ɩ
HTML Hex Encoding	ɩ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xC9 0xA9
UTF-16 Encoding	0x0269
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00000269
C/C++/Java Escape	\u0269

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	"Ɩ" U+0196 Latin Capital Letter Iota
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"Ɩ" U+0196 Latin Capital Letter Iota
Uppercase Code Point	"Ɩ" U+0196 Latin Capital Letter Iota
Titlecase Code Point	"Ɩ" U+0196 Latin Capital Letter Iota
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