U+AB40 "ꭀ" Latin Small Letter Inverted Oe Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꭀ
U+AB40 "ꭀ" Latin Small Letter Inverted Oe is a specialized typographic symbol belonging to the Latin Extended-E block, designed for use in phonetic transcription and certain orthographic systems. This character represents a rotated or inverted version of the standard ligature "œ" (oe), typically indicating a specific vowel sound or phonetic distinction in linguistic descriptions. It is rarely encountered in everyday text but holds value in academic and technical contexts, such as documenting dialects or reconstructing historical pronunciations, where its unique orientation helps denote a sound distinct from the regular oe ligature.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AB40 |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Latin Small Letter Inverted Oe |
| Block | Latin Extended-E |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꭀ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꭀ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xAD 0x80 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAB40 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AB40 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uab40 |