U+2C70 "Ɒ" Latin Capital Letter Turned Alpha Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
Ɒ
U+2C70 "Ɒ" Latin Capital Letter Turned Alpha is a nonstandard letter used primarily in historical or phonetic contexts, most notably in the Uralic Phonetic Alphabet, where it represents a voiced labiodental approximant, a sound similar to a "w" produced with the lower lip and upper teeth. It is a turned, uppercase version of the Latin letter alpha, which itself derives from the Greek alpha, and its design distinguishes it from the standard Latin "A" by its rounded, symmetrical top. This character is rarely seen in modern orthographies but occasionally appears in linguistic documentation and specialized typography focusing on the sounds of Uralic languages.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2C70 |
| Version Added | 5.2 |
| Name | Latin Capital Letter Turned Alpha |
| Block | Latin Extended-C |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ɒ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ɒ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0xB1 0xB0 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2C70 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002C70 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2c70 |
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 | "ɒ" U+0252 Latin Small Letter Turned Alpha |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ɒ" U+0252 Latin Small Letter Turned Alpha |
| Simple Case Folding | "ɒ" U+0252 Latin Small Letter Turned Alpha |
| Case Folding | "ɒ" U+0252 Latin Small Letter Turned Alpha |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ɒ" U+0252 Latin Small Letter Turned Alpha |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ɒ" U+0252 Latin Small Letter Turned 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 |