U+A7AE "Ɪ" Latin Capital Letter Small Capital I Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
Ɪ
U+A7AE "Ɪ" Latin Capital Letter Small Capital I is a typographic character primarily used in the International Phonetic Alphabet to represent the near-close near-front unrounded vowel sound, often heard in English words like "kit" (as opposed to the barred i used in some broad transcriptions). It is designed as a small capital version of the letter I, giving it a distinctive appearance that differs from both the standard capital I and the lowercase dotted i. This character helps linguists and phoneticians precisely denote vowel quality in narrow phonetic transcription, and it can be entered in digital text via its specific Unicode code point for accurate representation in specialized writing systems and linguistic documentation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A7AE |
| Version Added | 9.0 |
| Name | Latin Capital Letter Small Capital I |
| Block | Latin Extended-D |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ɪ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ɪ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0x9E 0xAE |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA7AE |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A7AE |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua7ae |
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 | "ɪ" U+026A Latin Letter Small Capital I |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ɪ" U+026A Latin Letter Small Capital I |
| Simple Case Folding | "ɪ" U+026A Latin Letter Small Capital I |
| Case Folding | "ɪ" U+026A Latin Letter Small Capital I |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ɪ" U+026A Latin Letter Small Capital I |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ɪ" U+026A Latin Letter Small Capital I |
| 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 |