U+A7B3 "Ꭓ" Latin Capital Letter Chi Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
Ꭓ
U+A7B3 "Ꭓ" Latin Capital Letter Chi is a glyph representing the Greek letter chi (Χ) in a Latin script form, primarily used in linguistic transcriptions for certain African languages, such as those in the Dogon family, to denote a voiceless uvular fricative or similar sound. It is part of the Latin Extended-D block, introduced to support specific orthographic needs outside standard Latin or Greek alphabets, and visually resembles an uppercase X with a distinctive curved stroke, distinguishing it from the mathematical or Greek chi.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A7B3 |
| Version Added | 8.0 |
| Name | Latin Capital Letter Chi |
| Block | Latin Extended-D |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ꭓ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ꭓ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0x9E 0xB3 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA7B3 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A7B3 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua7b3 |
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 | "ꭓ" U+AB53 Latin Small Letter Chi |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ꭓ" U+AB53 Latin Small Letter Chi |
| Simple Case Folding | "ꭓ" U+AB53 Latin Small Letter Chi |
| Case Folding | "ꭓ" U+AB53 Latin Small Letter Chi |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ꭓ" U+AB53 Latin Small Letter Chi |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ꭓ" U+AB53 Latin Small Letter Chi |
| 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 |