U+A7B1 "Ʇ" Latin Capital Letter Turned T Unicode Character
U+A7B1 "Ʇ" Latin Capital Letter Turned T is a typographic and phonetic symbol that resembles a capital T rotated 180 degrees, originally introduced in the Latin Extended-D block to support certain African languages and scholarly transcription systems. It primarily represents a specific speech sound, such as a retroflex or implosive consonant, in linguistic notation where character rotation conveys phonetic modification, though its usage remains rare and primarily historical or academic. This character was encoded to standardize orthographies for languages like the Loma script of Liberia and to support work in comparative linguistics, ensuring that digital text can accurately preserve these specialized symbols without resorting to visual approximations or font-dependent glyphs.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A7B1 |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Latin Capital Letter Turned T |
| Block | Latin Extended-D |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ʇ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ʇ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0x9E 0xB1 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA7B1 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A7B1 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua7b1 |
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 | "ʇ" U+0287 Latin Small Letter Turned T |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ʇ" U+0287 Latin Small Letter Turned T |
| Simple Case Folding | "ʇ" U+0287 Latin Small Letter Turned T |
| Case Folding | "ʇ" U+0287 Latin Small Letter Turned T |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ʇ" U+0287 Latin Small Letter Turned T |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ʇ" U+0287 Latin Small Letter Turned T |
| 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 |