U+A7B6 "Ꞷ" Latin Capital Letter Omega Unicode Character

U+A7B6 "Ꞷ" Latin Capital Letter Omega is a typographic variant of the Greek capital omega, specifically designed for use in Latin script orthographies, primarily in certain African languages such as the Gbe languages where it represents a distinct vowel sound, often a close-mid back rounded vowel or a similar phonetic value not covered by standard Latin letters. It was added to the Unicode Standard as part of the Latin Extended-D block to support scholarly and practical transcriptions, distinguishing it from the Greek omega (Ω) and allowing precise linguistic representation in digital text.

General Properties

Code Point	U+A7B6
Version Added	8.0
Name	Latin Capital Letter Omega
Block	Latin Extended-D
General Category	Uppercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	Ꞷ
HTML Hex Encoding	Ꞷ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEA 0x9E 0xB6
UTF-16 Encoding	0xA7B6
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000A7B6
C/C++/Java Escape	\ua7b6

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	"ꞷ" U+A7B7 Latin Small Letter Omega
Lowercase Code Point	"ꞷ" U+A7B7 Latin Small Letter Omega
Simple Case Folding	"ꞷ" U+A7B7 Latin Small Letter Omega
Case Folding	"ꞷ" U+A7B7 Latin Small Letter Omega
Cased	Yes
Changes When Casefolded	Yes
Changes When Casemapped	Yes
Changes When Lowercased	Yes
Changes When NFKC Casefolded	Yes
NFKC Casefold	"ꞷ" U+A7B7 Latin Small Letter Omega
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ꞷ" U+A7B7 Latin Small Letter Omega
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