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Glyph for U+0252
Source: Noto Sans

U+0252 Latin Small Letter Turned Alpha

U+0252 was added in Unicode version 1.1 in 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. Its uppercase variant is Glyph for U+2C70 Latin Capital Letter Turned Alpha and its titlecase variant is Glyph for U+2C70 Latin Capital Letter Turned Alpha.

The glyph is not a composition. It has no designated width in East Asian texts. In bidirectional text it is written from left to right. When changing direction it is not mirrored. The word that U+0252 forms with similar adjacent characters prevents a line break inside it.

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 appears 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 hex reference ɒ
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake É’
Encoding: EUC_JIS_2004 (hex bytes) AB BA
Encoding: EUC_JISX0213 (hex bytes) AB BA
Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes) 81 30 AB 38
Encoding: ISO2022_JP_2004 (hex bytes) 1B 24 28 51 2B 3A 1B 28 42
Encoding: ISO2022_JP_3 (hex bytes) 1B 24 28 4F 2B 3A 1B 28 42
Encoding: SHIFT_JIS_2004 (hex bytes) 86 59
Encoding: SHIFT_JISX0213 (hex bytes) 86 59
LATEX \Elztrnsa
AGL: Latin-5 uni0252
Adobe Glyph List ascriptturned

Related Characters

Elsewhere

Complete Record

Property Value
Age (age) 1.1 (1993)
Unicode Name (na) LATIN SMALL LETTER TURNED ALPHA
Unicode 1 Name (na1) LATIN SMALL LETTER TURNED SCRIPT A
Block (blk) IPA Extensions
General Category (gc) Lowercase Letter
Script (sc) Latin
Bidirectional Category (bc) Left To Right
Combining Class (ccc) Not Reordered
Decomposition Type (dt) none
Decomposition Mapping (dm) Glyph for U+0252 Latin Small Letter Turned Alpha
Lowercase (Lower) ✔
Simple Lowercase Mapping (slc) Glyph for U+0252 Latin Small Letter Turned Alpha
Lowercase Mapping (lc) Glyph for U+0252 Latin Small Letter Turned Alpha
Uppercase (Upper) ✘
Simple Uppercase Mapping (suc) Glyph for U+2C70 Latin Capital Letter Turned Alpha
Uppercase Mapping (uc) Glyph for U+2C70 Latin Capital Letter Turned Alpha
Simple Titlecase Mapping (stc) Glyph for U+2C70 Latin Capital Letter Turned Alpha
Titlecase Mapping (tc) Glyph for U+2C70 Latin Capital Letter Turned Alpha
Case Folding (cf) Glyph for U+0252 Latin Small Letter Turned Alpha
ASCII Hex Digit (AHex) ✘
Alphabetic (Alpha) ✔
Bidi Control (Bidi_C) ✘
Bidi Mirrored (Bidi_M) ✘
Composition Exclusion (CE) ✘
Case Ignorable (CI) ✘
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) ✔
Cased (Cased) ✔
Full Composition Exclusion (Comp_Ex) ✘
Default Ignorable Code Point (DI) ✘
Dash (Dash) ✘
Deprecated (Dep) ✘
Diacritic (Dia) ✘
Emoji Modifier Base (EBase) ✘
Emoji Component (EComp) ✘
Emoji Modifier (EMod) ✘
Emoji Presentation (EPres) ✘
Emoji (Emoji) ✘
Extender (Ext) ✘
Extended Pictographic (ExtPict) ✘
FC NFKC Closure (FC_NFKC) Glyph for U+0252 Latin Small Letter Turned Alpha
Grapheme Cluster Break (GCB) Any
Grapheme Base (Gr_Base) ✔
Grapheme Extend (Gr_Ext) ✘
Grapheme Link (Gr_Link) ✘
Hex Digit (Hex) ✘
Hyphen (Hyphen) ✘
ID Continue (IDC) ✔
ID Start (IDS) ✔
IDS Binary Operator (IDSB) ✘
IDS Trinary Operator and (IDST) ✘
IDSU (IDSU) 0
ID_Compat_Math_Continue (ID_Compat_Math_Continue) 0
ID_Compat_Math_Start (ID_Compat_Math_Start) 0
Ideographic (Ideo) ✘
InCB (InCB) None
Indic Mantra Category (InMC) —
Indic Positional Category (InPC) NA
Indic Syllabic Category (InSC) Other
Jamo Short Name (JSN) —
Join Control (Join_C) ✘
Logical Order Exception (LOE) ✘
Modifier Combining Mark (MCM) ✘
Math (Math) ✘
Noncharacter Code Point (NChar) ✘
NFC Quick Check (NFC_QC) Yes
NFD Quick Check (NFD_QC) Yes
NFKC Casefold (NFKC_CF) Glyph for U+0252 Latin Small Letter Turned Alpha
NFKC Quick Check (NFKC_QC) Yes
NFKC_SCF (NFKC_SCF) Glyph for U+0252 Latin Small Letter Turned Alpha
NFKD Quick Check (NFKD_QC) Yes
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) ✘
Prepended Concatenation Mark (PCM) ✘
Pattern Syntax (Pat_Syn) ✘
Pattern White Space (Pat_WS) ✘
Quotation Mark (QMark) ✘
Regional Indicator (RI) ✘
Radical (Radical) ✘
Sentence Break (SB) Lower
Soft Dotted (SD) ✘
Sentence Terminal (STerm) ✘
Terminal Punctuation (Term) ✘
Unified Ideograph (UIdeo) ✘
Variation Selector (VS) ✘
Word Break (WB) Alphabetic Letter
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) ✘
Bidi Paired Bracket (bpb) Glyph for U+0252 Latin Small Letter Turned Alpha
Bidi Paired Bracket Type (bpt) None
East Asian Width (ea) neutral
Hangul Syllable Type (hst) Not Applicable
ISO 10646 Comment (isc) —
Joining Group (jg) No_Joining_Group
Joining Type (jt) Non Joining
Line Break (lb) Alphabetic
Numeric Type (nt) none
Numeric Value (nv) not a number
Simple Case Folding (scf) Glyph for U+0252 Latin Small Letter Turned Alpha
Script Extension (scx)
Vertical Orientation (vo) R