U+2C6D "Ɑ" Latin Capital Letter Alpha Unicode Character

U+2C6D "Ɑ" Latin Capital Letter Alpha is a typographic letter that visually resembles a capital Latin A but with a rounded, closed top, and is used primarily in certain African language orthographies, such as those for the Fe'fe' and Mbo languages of Cameroon, where it represents a distinct vowel sound. While its shape is similar to the lowercase Latin alpha (ɑ) used in the International Phonetic Alphabet, this uppercase form serves a grammatical purpose in standard writing systems. It was encoded in Unicode as part of the Latin Extended-C block to support accurate representation of these languages in digital text.

General Properties

Code Point	U+2C6D
Version Added	5.1
Name	Latin Capital Letter Alpha
Block	Latin Extended-C
General Category	Uppercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	Ɑ
HTML Hex Encoding	Ɑ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE2 0xB1 0xAD
UTF-16 Encoding	0x2C6D
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00002C6D
C/C++/Java Escape	\u2c6d

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
Uppercase	Yes
Simple Lowercase Code Point	"ɑ" U+0251 Latin Small Letter Alpha
Lowercase Code Point	"ɑ" U+0251 Latin Small Letter Alpha
Simple Case Folding	"ɑ" U+0251 Latin Small Letter Alpha
Case Folding	"ɑ" U+0251 Latin Small Letter Alpha
Cased	Yes
Changes When Casefolded	Yes
Changes When Casemapped	Yes
Changes When Lowercased	Yes
Changes When NFKC Casefolded	Yes
NFKC Casefold	"ɑ" U+0251 Latin Small Letter Alpha
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ɑ" U+0251 Latin Small Letter Alpha
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	Upper