U+AB64 "ꭤ" Latin Small Letter Inverted Alpha Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꭤ
U+AB64 "ꭤ" Latin Small Letter Inverted Alpha is a relatively rare typographic symbol that represents an upside-down version of the Latin alpha, a letter used historically in phonetic transcription, particularly within the context of the Americanist phonetic alphabet to denote a distinct vowel sound. Unlike the standard Greek alpha used in the International Phonetic Alphabet for an open back unrounded vowel, this inverted form was proposed for Unicode to support specialized linguistic documentation, though it remains infrequently used in modern typesetting. Its inclusion in the Unicode standard ensures that scholars and digital archivists can accurately preserve and reproduce older linguistic texts that employ this glyph.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AB64 |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Latin Small Letter Inverted Alpha |
| Block | Latin Extended-E |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꭤ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꭤ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xAD 0xA4 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAB64 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AB64 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uab64 |