U+02BF Modifier Letter Left Half Ring
U+02BF was added in Unicode version 1.1 in 1993. It belongs to the block Spacing Modifier Letters in the Basic Multilingual Plane.
This character is a Modifier Letter and is commonly used, that is, in no specific script.
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+02BF forms with similar adjacent characters prevents a line break inside it. The glyph can be confused with one other glyph.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
The modifier letter left half ring ⟨ʿ⟩ is a character of the Unicode Spacing Modifier Letters range (although it is not a modifier but a standalone grapheme). It is used in romanization to transliterate the Semitic letter ayin after it was used by The Encyclopedia of Islam (later the International Journal of Middle East Studies), representing the sound /ʕ/ (a voiced pharyngeal fricative, as in Arabic ع ʿayn). In informal contexts, the backtick ⟨`⟩ or the apostrophe ⟨'⟩ is commonly used as a substitute.
Representations
| System | Representation |
|---|---|
| Nº | 703 |
| UTF-8 | CA BF |
| UTF-16 | 02 BF |
| UTF-32 | 00 00 02 BF |
| URL-Quoted | %CA%BF |
| HTML hex reference | ʿ |
| Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | ◌ʿ |
| Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes) | 81 30 B6 36 |
| AGL: Latin-4 | uni02BF |
| AGL: Latin-5 | uni02BF |
| Adobe Glyph List | ringhalfleft |
| digraph | ;S |
Related Characters
Confusables
Elsewhere
Complete Record
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| 1.1 (1993) | |
| MODIFIER LETTER LEFT HALF RING | |
| — | |
| Spacing Modifier Letters | |
| Modifier Letter | |
| Common | |
| Left To Right | |
| Not Reordered | |
| none | |
| Modifier Letter Left Half Ring | |
| ✘ | |
| Modifier Letter Left Half Ring | |
| Modifier Letter Left Half Ring | |
| ✘ | |
| Modifier Letter Left Half Ring | |
| Modifier Letter Left Half Ring | |
| Modifier Letter Left Half Ring | |
| Modifier Letter Left Half Ring | |
| Modifier Letter Left Half Ring | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Modifier Letter Left Half Ring | |
| Any | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| ✘ | |
| None | |
| — | |
| NA | |
| Other | |
| — | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Yes | |
| Yes | |
| Modifier Letter Left Half Ring | |
| Yes | |
| Modifier Letter Left Half Ring | |
| Yes | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Other Letter | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Alphabetic Letter | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Modifier Letter Left Half Ring | |
| None | |
| neutral | |
| Not Applicable | |
| — | |
| No_Joining_Group | |
| Non Joining | |
| Alphabetic | |
| none | |
| not a number | |
| Modifier Letter Left Half Ring | |
| R |