U+AB30 "ꬰ" Latin Small Letter Barred Alpha Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꬰ
U+AB30 "ꬰ" Latin Small Letter Barred Alpha is a typographic variant of the Latin letter alpha, originally used in certain phonetic transcription systems, most notably in the work of the early 20th-century linguist Kenneth L. Pike for the representation of sounds in unwritten languages. It features a horizontal bar through the center of the character, distinguishing it from the standard Latin alpha, and was designed to denote a specific vowel quality, typically a close-mid central unrounded vowel or a similar sound in phonetic notation. This character is part of the Latin Extended-D block, which was added to the Unicode Standard to support a range of historical and scholarly phonetic symbols that were not covered by earlier encoding.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AB30 |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Latin Small Letter Barred Alpha |
| Block | Latin Extended-E |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꬰ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꬰ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xAC 0xB0 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAB30 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AB30 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uab30 |