U+2184 Latin Small Letter Reversed C
U+2184 was added to Unicode in version 5.0 (2006). It belongs to the block
This character is a Lowercase Letter and is mainly used in the Latin script. It is related to its uppercase variant
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+2184 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 Claudian letters were developed by the Roman emperor Claudius (reigned 41–54). He introduced three new letters to the Latin alphabet:
- Ↄ or ↃϹ/X (antisigma) to replace BS and PS, much as X stood in for CS and GS. The shape of this letter is disputed, however, since no inscription bearing it has been found. Franz Bücheler identified it with the variant Roman numeral Ↄ, but 20th century philologists, working from copies of Priscian's books, believe it to instead resemble two linked Cs (Ↄ+Ϲ), which was a preexisting variant of Greek sigma, and easily mistaken for X by later writers. Revilo P. Oliver argued that Claudius would have based this letter upon the Arcadian variant of psi or . This letter should not be confused with the "open O" letter Ɔ.
- Ⅎ, a turned F or digamma (digamma inversum) to be used instead of the letter V when denoting the consonantal phoneme (w/β). Thus, it resembles the use of the letter V in modern Latin texts, where the vocalic use of the letter V is represented by its variant U which has been recognized as a different letter only later.
- Ⱶ, a half H. The value of this letter is unclear, but perhaps it represented the so-called sonus medius, a short vowel sound (likely ɨ or ʉ) used before labial consonants in Latin words such as optumus/optimus. The letter was later used as a variant of y in inscriptions for short Greek upsilon (as in Olympicus). It may have disappeared because the sonus medius itself disappeared from spoken language.
Representations
System | Representation |
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Nº | 8580 |
UTF-8 | E2 86 84 |
UTF-16 | 21 84 |
UTF-32 | 00 00 21 84 |
URL-Quoted | %E2%86%84 |
HTML hex reference | ↄ |
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | ↄ |
Related Characters
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Elsewhere
Complete Record
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5.0 (2006) | |
LATIN SMALL LETTER REVERSED C | |
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Number Forms | |
Lowercase Letter | |
Latin | |
Left To Right | |
Not Reordered | |
None | |
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✔ | |
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✔ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
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✔ | |
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✔ | |
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✘ | |
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✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
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Any | |
✔ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✔ | |
✔ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
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NA | |
Other | |
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✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
Yes | |
Yes | |
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Yes | |
Yes | |
✘ | |
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✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
Lower | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
Alphabetic Letter | |
✘ | |
✔ | |
✔ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
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Neutral | |
Not Applicable | |
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No_Joining_Group | |
Non Joining | |
Alphabetic | |
None | |
not a number | |
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U |