U+0227 LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH DOT ABOVE
U+0227 was added to Unicode in version 3.0. It belongs to the block 
Latin Extended-B in the Basic Multilingual Plane.
This character is a Lowercase Letter and is mainly used in the Latin script. It is related to its uppercase variant 0226
and its titlecase variant 0226.
The glyph is a Canonical composition of the glyphs 0061
0307
. It has a Neutral East Asian Width. In bidirectional context it acts as Left To Right and is not mirrored. The glyph can, under circumstances, be confused with 2 other glyphs. In text U+0227 behaves as Alphabetic regarding line breaks. It has
type Lower for sentence and ALetter for word breaks. The Grapheme Cluster Break is Any.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
Ȧ (minuscule: ȧ) is a letter of the Latin alphabet, derived from A with the addition of a dot above the letter. It is occasionally used as a phonetic symbol for a low central vowel, [ä]. Despite the character only added a dot above, it is not easy to show up in computers. It is used in the Livonian language.
Representations
| System | Representation |
|---|---|
| Nº | 551 |
| UTF-8 | C8 A7 |
| UTF-16 | 02 27 |
| UTF-32 | 00 00 02 27 |
| URL-Quoted | %C8%A7 |
| HTML-Escape | ȧ |
Related Characters
Confusables
Elsewhere
Complete Record
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Age (age) | 3.0 |
| Unicode Name (na) | LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH DOT ABOVE |
| Unicode 1 Name (na1) | — |
| Block (blk) | Latin_Ext_B |
| General Category (gc) | Lowercase Letter |
| Script (sc) | Latin |
| Bidirectional Category (bc) | Left To Right |
| Combining Class (ccc) | Not Reordered |
| Decomposition Type (dt) | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping (dm) |
0061 0307 |
| Lowercase (Lower) | ✔ |
| Simple Lowercase Mapping (slc) |
0227 |
| Lowercase Mapping (lc) |
0227 |
| Uppercase (Upper) | ✘ |
| Simple Uppercase Mapping (suc) |
0226 |
| Uppercase Mapping (uc) |
0226 |
| Simple Titlecase Mapping (stc) |
0226 |
| Titlecase Mapping (tc) |
0226 |
| Case Folding (cf) |
0227 |
| ASCII Hex Digit (AHex) | ✘ |
| Alphabetic (Alpha) | ✔ |
| Bidi Control (Bidi_C) | ✘ |
| Bidi Mirrored (Bidi_M) | ✘ |
| Cased (Cased) | ✔ |
| Composition Exclusion (CE) | ✘ |
| Case Ignorable (CI) | ✘ |
| Full Composition Exclusion (Comp_Ex) | ✘ |
| Changes When Casefolded (CWCF) | ✘ |
| Changes When Casemapped (CWCM) | ✔ |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded (CWKCF) | ✘ |
| Changes When Lowercased (CWL) | ✘ |
| Changes When Titlecased (CWT) | ✔ |
| Changes When Uppercased (CWU) | ✔ |
| Dash (Dash) | ✘ |
| Deprecated (Dep) | ✘ |
| Default Ignorable Code Point (DI) | ✘ |
| Diacritic (Dia) | ✘ |
| East Asian Width (ea) | Neutral |
| Extender (Ext) | ✘ |
| FC NFKC Closure (FC_NFKC) |
0227 |
| Grapheme Cluster Break (GCB) | Any |
| Grapheme Base (Gr_Base) | ✔ |
| Grapheme Extend (Gr_Ext) | ✘ |
| Grapheme Link (Gr_Link) | ✘ |
| Hex Digit (Hex) | ✘ |
| Hangul Syllable Type (hst) | Not Applicable |
| Hyphen (Hyphen) | ✘ |
| ID Continue (IDC) | ✔ |
| Ideographic (Ideo) | ✘ |
| ID Start (IDS) | ✔ |
| IDS Binary Operator (IDSB) | ✘ |
| IDS Trinary Operator and (IDST) | ✘ |
| Indic Matra Category (InMC) | NA |
| Indic Syllabic Category (InSC) | Other |
| ISO 10646 Comment (isc) | — |
| Joining Group (jg) | No_Joining_Group |
| Join Control (Join_C) | ✘ |
| Jamo Short Name (JSN) | — |
| Joining Type (jt) | Non Joining |
| Line Break (lb) | Alphabetic |
| Logical Order Exception (LOE) | ✘ |
| Math (Math) | ✘ |
| Noncharacter Code Point (NChar) | ✘ |
| NFC Quick Check (NFC_QC) | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check (NFD_QC) | No |
| NFKC Casefold (NFKC_CF) |
0227 |
| NFKC Quick Check (NFKC_QC) | Yes |
| NFKD Quick Check (NFKD_QC) | No |
| Numeric Type (nt) | None |
| Numeric Value (nv) | NaN |
| Other Alphabetic (OAlpha) | ✘ |
| Other Default Ignorable Code Point (ODI) | ✘ |
| Other Grapheme Extend (OGr_Ext) | ✘ |
| Other ID Continue (OIDC) | ✘ |
| Other ID Start (OIDS) | ✘ |
| Other Lowercase (OLower) | ✘ |
| Other Math (OMath) | ✘ |
| Other Uppercase (OUpper) | ✘ |
| Pattern Syntax (Pat_Syn) | ✘ |
| Pattern White Space (Pat_WS) | ✘ |
| Quotation Mark (QMark) | ✘ |
| Radical (Radical) | ✘ |
| Sentence Break (SB) | Lower |
| Simple Case Folding (scf) |
0227 |
| Script Extension (scx) | Latin |
| Soft Dotted (SD) | ✘ |
| STerm (STerm) | ✘ |
| Terminal Punctuation (Term) | ✘ |
| Unified Ideograph (UIdeo) | ✘ |
| Variation Selector (VS) | ✘ |
| Word Break (WB) | ALetter |
| White Space (WSpace) | ✘ |
| XID Continue (XIDC) | ✔ |
| XID Start (XIDS) | ✔ |
| Expands On NFC (XO_NFC) | ✘ |
| Expands On NFD (XO_NFD) | ✔ |
| Expands On NFKC (XO_NFKC) | ✘ |
| Expands On NFKD (XO_NFKD) | ✔ |