U+028C "ʌ" Latin Small Letter Turned V Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+028C "ʌ" Latin Small Letter Turned V is a typographic symbol that represents the open-mid back unrounded vowel sound, commonly found in the International Phonetic Alphabet where it denotes the vowel in words like "cup" or "strut" in many English dialects. Its shape is a rotated lowercase "v", and it appears in various writing systems and transcription systems beyond phonetics, including in the orthographies of some African languages.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+028C |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Small Letter Turned V |
| Block | IPA Extensions |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ʌ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ʌ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xCA 0x8C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x028C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000028C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u028c |
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 | "Ʌ" U+0245 Latin Capital Letter Turned V |
| Simple Titlecase Code Point | "Ʌ" U+0245 Latin Capital Letter Turned V |
| Uppercase Code Point | "Ʌ" U+0245 Latin Capital Letter Turned V |
| Titlecase Code Point | "Ʌ" U+0245 Latin Capital Letter Turned V |
| 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 |