U+A7BB "ꞻ" Latin Small Letter Glottal A Unicode Character

U+A7BB "ꞻ" Latin Small Letter Glottal A is a specialized typographic symbol used primarily in certain phonetic and linguistic transcriptions, particularly within the context of the Uralic Phonetic Alphabet, where it represents a reduced or glottalized version of the vowel sound [a]. Its design typically resembles a standard lowercase letter "a" but with a distinctive modification, such as a hook or a shortened stroke, to indicate its murmured or laryngealized articulation. This character belongs to the Latin Extended-D block and is intended for scholarly works and dictionaries that require precise notation of vowel qualities in languages like some Sami or other Finno-Ugric languages, though it remains rare in general text.

General Properties

Code Point	U+A7BB
Version Added	12.0
Name	Latin Small Letter Glottal A
Block	Latin Extended-D
General Category	Lowercase 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 0xBB
UTF-16 Encoding	0xA7BB
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000A7BB
C/C++/Java Escape	\ua7bb

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
Lowercase	Yes
Simple Uppercase Code Point	"Ꞻ" U+A7BA Latin Capital Letter Glottal A
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"Ꞻ" U+A7BA Latin Capital Letter Glottal A
Uppercase Code Point	"Ꞻ" U+A7BA Latin Capital Letter Glottal A
Titlecase Code Point	"Ꞻ" U+A7BA Latin Capital Letter Glottal A
Cased	Yes
Changes When Casemapped	Yes
Changes When Titlecased	Yes
Changes When Uppercased	Yes
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	Lower