U+A7BA "Ꞻ" Latin Capital Letter Glottal A Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
Ꞻ
U+A7BA "Ꞻ" Latin Capital Letter Glottal A is a relatively recent addition to the Latin script, introduced in Unicode version 12.0 in 2019 to support the orthography of certain African languages, particularly within the Kasem language of Ghana. This uppercase letter represents a distinct vowel sound produced with a glottalized or creaky voice quality, differing from the standard letter A, and it is typically paired with its lowercase counterpart, U+A7BB "ꞻ", in written text. Its inclusion helps preserve linguistic accuracy and cultural heritage by allowing speakers and scholars to correctly transcribe and digitize native words where this phoneme is essential.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A7BA |
| Version Added | 12.0 |
| Name | Latin Capital Letter Glottal A |
| Block | Latin Extended-D |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ꞻ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ꞻ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0x9E 0xBA |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA7BA |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A7BA |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua7ba |
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 | "ꞻ" U+A7BB Latin Small Letter Glottal A |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ꞻ" U+A7BB Latin Small Letter Glottal A |
| Simple Case Folding | "ꞻ" U+A7BB Latin Small Letter Glottal A |
| Case Folding | "ꞻ" U+A7BB Latin Small Letter Glottal A |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ꞻ" U+A7BB Latin Small Letter Glottal A |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ꞻ" U+A7BB Latin Small Letter Glottal A |
| 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 |