U+1E9A "ẚ" Latin Small Letter A with Right Half Ring Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1E9A "ẚ" Latin Small Letter A with Right Half Ring is a specialized diacritic letter used primarily in historical or phonetic transcriptions of the Latin script, where the right half ring placed above the letter 'a' typically indicates a specific vowel quality or a modification in pronunciation, often employed in certain scholarly contexts or medieval manuscript studies to denote a short, reduced, or non-syllabic vowel sound.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1E9A |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Small Letter A with Right Half Ring |
| Block | Latin Extended Additional |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Compat |
| Decomposition Mapping | "a" U+0061 Latin Small Letter A "ʾ" U+02BE Modifier Letter Right Half Ring |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ẚ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ẚ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xBA 0x9A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1E9A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001E9A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1e9a |