U+2C6F "Ɐ" Latin Capital Letter Turned A Unicode Character
U+2C6F "Ɐ" Latin Capital Letter Turned A is an inverted uppercase Latin A, created by rotating a standard capital A 180 degrees, and it serves as a phonetic symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet to represent a near-open central vowel, though it is now more commonly replaced by the lowercase turned alpha ɐ. In addition to its linguistic use, this character appears in specialized alphabets like the African Reference Alphabet for certain languages, where it denotes a distinct vowel sound, and it has also been adopted as a typographic element in logos or design. Outside technical contexts, "Ɐ" is sometimes employed informally in mathematical notations to symbolize a universal quantifier inverted or as a whimsical visual variation of the letter A.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2C6F |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Latin Capital Letter Turned A |
| Block | Latin Extended-C |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ɐ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ɐ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0xB1 0xAF |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2C6F |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002C6F |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2c6f |
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 | "ɐ" U+0250 Latin Small Letter Turned A |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ɐ" U+0250 Latin Small Letter Turned A |
| Simple Case Folding | "ɐ" U+0250 Latin Small Letter Turned A |
| Case Folding | "ɐ" U+0250 Latin Small Letter Turned A |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ɐ" U+0250 Latin Small Letter Turned A |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ɐ" U+0250 Latin Small Letter Turned A |
| 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 |