U+0252 LATIN SMALL LETTER TURNED ALPHA: ɒ – Unicode

U+0252 was added to Unicode in version 1.1 (1993). It belongs to the block U+0250 to U+02AF IPA Extensions in the U+0000 to U+FFFF Basic Multilingual Plane.

This character is a Lowercase Letter and is mainly used in the Latin script. It is related to its uppercase variant Latin Capital Letter Turned Alpha and its titlecase variant Latin Capital Letter Turned Alpha.

The glyph is not a composition. It has a Neutral East Asian Width. In bidirectional context it acts as Left To Right and is not mirrored. In text U+0252 behaves as Alphabetic regarding line breaks. It has type Lower for sentence and Alphabetic Letter for word breaks. The Grapheme Cluster Break is Any.

The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:

The Latin turned alpha, also known as the turned script A (uppercase: Ɒ, lowercase: ɒ), is an additional letter of the Latin script, based on letters A and Latin alpha (Ɑ). Its lowercase variant is used in International Phonetic Alphabet, Americanist phonetic notation, Uralic Phonetic Alphabet, Teuthonista, Swedish Dialect Alphabet, Dania, and Norvegia transcriptions. Its uppercase variant is used in the Americanist phonetic notation. The letter also apperears in Belter Creole, a constructed language made by Nick Farmer for The Expanse television sci-fi series.

Representations

System	Representation
Nº	594
UTF-8	C9 92
UTF-16	02 52
UTF-32	00 00 02 52
URL-Quoted	%C9%92
HTML-Escape	ɒ
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake	É
L^AT_EX	\Elztrnsa
AGL: Latin-5	uni0252
Adobe Glyph List	ascriptturned

Related Characters

Elsewhere

Complete Record

Property	Value
Age	1.1 (1993)
Unicode Name	LATIN SMALL LETTER TURNED ALPHA
Unicode 1 Name	LATIN SMALL LETTER TURNED SCRIPT A
Block	IPA Extensions
General Category	Lowercase Letter
Script	Latin
Bidirectional Category	Left To Right
Combining Class	Not Reordered
Decomposition Type	None
Decomposition Mapping	Latin Small Letter Turned Alpha
Lowercase	✔
Simple Lowercase Mapping	Latin Small Letter Turned Alpha
Lowercase Mapping	Latin Small Letter Turned Alpha
Uppercase	✘
Simple Uppercase Mapping	Latin Capital Letter Turned Alpha
Uppercase Mapping	Latin Capital Letter Turned Alpha
Simple Titlecase Mapping	Latin Capital Letter Turned Alpha
Titlecase Mapping	Latin Capital Letter Turned Alpha
Case Folding	Latin Small Letter Turned Alpha
ASCII Hex Digit	✘
Alphabetic	✔
Bidi Control	✘
Bidi Mirrored	✘
Composition Exclusion	✘
Case Ignorable	✘
Changes When Casefolded	✘
Changes When Casemapped	✔
Changes When NFKC Casefolded	✘
Changes When Lowercased	✘
Changes When Titlecased	✔
Changes When Uppercased	✔
Cased	✔
Full Composition Exclusion	✘
Default Ignorable Code Point	✘
Dash	✘
Deprecated	✘
Diacritic	✘
Emoji Modifier Base	✘
Emoji Component	✘
Emoji Modifier	✘
Emoji Presentation	✘
Emoji	✘
Extender	✘
Extended Pictographic	✘
FC NFKC Closure	Latin Small Letter Turned Alpha
Grapheme Cluster Break	Any
Grapheme Base	✔
Grapheme Extend	✘
Grapheme Link	✘
Hex Digit	✘
Hyphen	✘
ID Continue	✔
ID Start	✔
IDS Binary Operator	✘
IDS Trinary Operator and	✘
Ideographic	✘
Indic Mantra Category	—
Indic Positional Category	NA
Indic Syllabic Category	Other
Jamo Short Name	—
Join Control	✘
Logical Order Exception	✘
Math	✘
Noncharacter Code Point	✘
NFC Quick Check	Yes
NFD Quick Check	Yes
NFKC Casefold	Latin Small Letter Turned Alpha
NFKC Quick Check	Yes
NFKD Quick Check	Yes
Other Alphabetic	✘
Other Default Ignorable Code Point	✘
Other Grapheme Extend	✘
Other ID Continue	✘
Other ID Start	✘
Other Lowercase	✘
Other Math	✘
Other Uppercase	✘
Prepended Concatenation Mark	✘
Pattern Syntax	✘
Pattern White Space	✘
Quotation Mark	✘
Regional Indicator	✘
Radical	✘
Sentence Break	Lower
Soft Dotted	✘
Sentence Terminal	✘
Terminal Punctuation	✘
Unified Ideograph	✘
Variation Selector	✘
Word Break	Alphabetic Letter
White Space	✘
XID Continue	✔
XID Start	✔
Expands On NFC	✘
Expands On NFD	✘
Expands On NFKC	✘
Expands On NFKD	✘
Bidi Paired Bracket	Latin Small Letter Turned Alpha
Bidi Paired Bracket Type	None
East Asian Width	Neutral
Hangul Syllable Type	Not Applicable
ISO 10646 Comment	—
Joining Group	No_Joining_Group
Joining Type	Non Joining
Line Break	Alphabetic
Numeric Type	None
Numeric Value	not a number
Simple Case Folding	Latin Small Letter Turned Alpha
Script Extension
Vertical Orientation	R