U+A7B2 "Ʝ" Latin Capital Letter J with Crossed-Tail Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
Ʝ
U+A7B2 "Ʝ" Latin Capital Letter J with Crossed-Tail is a distinctive glyph used in the orthography of some African languages, particularly for representing a voiced palatal implosive or a similar phonetic sound that standard Latin letters do not adequately capture. Its design features a capital J with a horizontal line or stroke crossing through the lower tail area, setting it apart from the regular J. This character was added to Unicode as part of the Latin Extended D block to support linguistic transcriptions and minority language writing systems, ensuring that specific phonetic distinctions can be accurately encoded in digital text.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A7B2 |
| Version Added | 8.0 |
| Name | Latin Capital Letter J with Crossed-Tail |
| Block | Latin Extended-D |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ʝ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ʝ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0x9E 0xB2 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA7B2 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A7B2 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua7b2 |
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 | "ʝ" U+029D Latin Small Letter J with Crossed-Tail |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ʝ" U+029D Latin Small Letter J with Crossed-Tail |
| Simple Case Folding | "ʝ" U+029D Latin Small Letter J with Crossed-Tail |
| Case Folding | "ʝ" U+029D Latin Small Letter J with Crossed-Tail |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ʝ" U+029D Latin Small Letter J with Crossed-Tail |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ʝ" U+029D Latin Small Letter J with Crossed-Tail |
| 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 |