U+A7CB "" Latin Capital Letter Rams Horn Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
U+A7CB "" Latin Capital Letter Rams Horn is a stylized uppercase letter resembling a ram's horn shape, used primarily in historical or phonetic transcriptions of African languages, particularly for representing a voiced velar approximant or similar sound in orthographies where a distinct symbol is needed. It is a relatively recent addition to the Unicode Standard, introduced in version 14.0 in 2021, as part of a set of characters for African language support, and pairs with its lowercase equivalent, U+A7CC, to enable proper casing in text. This character helps preserve and standardize unique script traditions that do not fit neatly into the Latin alphabet's typical letterforms.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A7CB |
| Version Added | 16.0 |
| Name | Latin Capital Letter Rams Horn |
| Block | Latin Extended-D |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ɤ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ɤ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0x9F 0x8B |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA7CB |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A7CB |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua7cb |
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 | "ɤ" U+0264 Latin Small Letter Rams Horn |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ɤ" U+0264 Latin Small Letter Rams Horn |
| Simple Case Folding | "ɤ" U+0264 Latin Small Letter Rams Horn |
| Case Folding | "ɤ" U+0264 Latin Small Letter Rams Horn |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ɤ" U+0264 Latin Small Letter Rams Horn |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ɤ" U+0264 Latin Small Letter Rams Horn |
| 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 |