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Glyph for U+028A
Source: Noto Sans

U+028A Latin Small Letter Upsilon

U+028A 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 Glyph for U+01B1 Latin Capital Letter Upsilon and its titlecase variant Glyph for U+01B1 Latin Capital Letter Upsilon.

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. The glyph can, under circumstances, be confused with 1 other glyphs. In text U+028A 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 letter Ʊ (minuscule: ʊ), called horseshoe or sometimes bucket or sometimes inverted omega, is a letter of the International Phonetic Alphabet used to transcribe a near-close near-back rounded vowel. Graphically, the lower case is a turned small-capital Greek letter omega (Ω) in many typefaces (e.g. Arial, Calibri, Candara, Liberation, Lucida, Noto, Times New Roman), and historically it derives from a small-capital Latin U (ᴜ), with the serifs exaggerated to make them more visible. However, Geoffrey Pullum interpreted it as an IPA variant of the Greek letter upsilon (υ) and called it Latin upsilon, the name that would be adopted by Unicode, though in IPA an actual Greek upsilon is also used for the voiced labiodental approximant; Pullum called this letter script V and Unicode calls it V with hook.

Horseshoe is used in the African reference alphabet, and national alphabets such as those of Anii and Tem. It most often has the value of /u/ with retracted tongue root.

Representations

System Representation
650
UTF-8 CA 8A
UTF-16 02 8A
UTF-32 00 00 02 8A
URL-Quoted %CA%8A
HTML hex reference ʊ
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake ÊŠ
LATEX \Elzpupsil
AGL: Latin-5 uni028A
Adobe Glyph List upsilonlatin

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Property Value
Age 1.1 (1993)
Unicode Name LATIN SMALL LETTER UPSILON
Unicode 1 Name
Block IPA Extensions
General Category Lowercase Letter
Script Latin
Bidirectional Category Left To Right
Combining Class Not Reordered
Decomposition Type None
Decomposition Mapping Glyph for U+028A Latin Small Letter Upsilon
Lowercase
Simple Lowercase Mapping Glyph for U+028A Latin Small Letter Upsilon
Lowercase Mapping Glyph for U+028A Latin Small Letter Upsilon
Uppercase
Simple Uppercase Mapping Glyph for U+01B1 Latin Capital Letter Upsilon
Uppercase Mapping Glyph for U+01B1 Latin Capital Letter Upsilon
Simple Titlecase Mapping Glyph for U+01B1 Latin Capital Letter Upsilon
Titlecase Mapping Glyph for U+01B1 Latin Capital Letter Upsilon
Case Folding Glyph for U+028A Latin Small Letter Upsilon
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 Glyph for U+028A Latin Small Letter Upsilon
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 Glyph for U+028A Latin Small Letter Upsilon
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 Glyph for U+028A Latin Small Letter Upsilon
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 Glyph for U+028A Latin Small Letter Upsilon
Script Extension
Vertical Orientation R