U+1AC0 "ᫀ" Combining Latin Small Letter Turned W Below Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1AC0 "ᫀ" Combining Latin Small Letter Turned W Below is a diacritical mark used in the International Phonetic Alphabet and certain linguistic orthographies to indicate a specific phonetic quality, typically a labialized or rounded articulation of the base consonant it attaches to. Resembling a small, inverted lowercase "w," this combining character is placed beneath a letter, such as a consonant, to modify its pronunciation in specialized transcription systems. It belongs to the Combining Diacritical Marks Extended block, which was introduced in Unicode version 14.0 to support additional phonetic notation needs, and it is visually distinct from similar marks like the combining turned comma below.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1AC0 |
| Version Added | 13.0 |
| Name | Combining Latin Small Letter Turned W Below |
| Block | Combining Diacritical Marks Extended |
| General Category | Nonspacing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | Below |
| Bidirectional Class | Nonspacing Mark |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᫀ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᫀ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xAB 0x80 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1AC0 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001AC0 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1ac0 |