U+A7BC "Ꞽ" Latin Capital Letter Glottal I Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
U+A7BC "Ꞽ" Latin Capital Letter Glottal I is a relatively recent addition to the standard, encoded in 2021 as part of the Latin Extended-D block to support the transcription of specific African and minority languages, particularly in linguistic work where it represents a distinct phoneme involving a glottalized or constricted variant of the vowel "I." Its design typically mirrors a capital I with a diacritic such as a tilde or stroke, depending on the typeface, to visually indicate the glottal or creaky voice articulation. This character is primarily used in scholarly and orthographic contexts for languages like some in the Nilo-Saharan and Niger-Congo families, though it remains uncommon in general typography, serving a specialized role in accurately representing subtle phonetic distinctions that standard Latin letters cannot capture.
General Properties
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding |
Ꞽ |
| HTML Hex Encoding |
Ꞽ |
| UTF-8 Encoding |
0xEA 0x9E 0xBC |
| UTF-16 Encoding |
0xA7BC |
| UTF-32 Encoding |
0x0000A7BC |
| C/C++/Java Escape |
\ua7bc |
Unicode Properties