U+2C70 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER TURNED ALPHA
U+2C70 was added to Unicode in version 5.2 (2009). It belongs to the block Latin Extended-C in the Basic Multilingual Plane.
This character is a Uppercase Letter and is mainly used in the Latin script. It is related to its lowercase variant Latin Small 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. The glyph can, under circumstances, be confused with 1 other glyphs. In text U+2C70 behaves as Alphabetic regarding line breaks. It has type Upper 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 | 11376 |
| UTF-8 | E2 B1 B0 |
| UTF-16 | 2C 70 |
| UTF-32 | 00 00 2C 70 |
| URL-Quoted | %E2%B1%B0 |
| HTML-Escape | Ɒ |
| Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | â±° |
| AGL: Latin-5 | uni2C70 |
Related Characters
Confusables
Elsewhere
Complete Record
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| 5.2 (2009) | |
| LATIN CAPITAL LETTER TURNED ALPHA | |
| — | |
| Latin Extended-C | |
| Uppercase Letter | |
| Latin | |
| Left To Right | |
| Not Reordered | |
| None | |
| Latin Capital Letter Turned Alpha | |
| ✘ | |
| Latin Small Letter Turned Alpha | |
| Latin Small Letter Turned Alpha | |
| ✔ | |
| Latin Capital Letter Turned Alpha | |
| Latin Capital Letter Turned Alpha | |
| Latin Capital Letter Turned Alpha | |
| Latin Capital Letter Turned Alpha | |
| Latin Small Letter Turned Alpha | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Latin Capital Letter Turned Alpha | |
| Any | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| — | |
| NA | |
| Other | |
| — | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Yes | |
| Yes | |
| Latin Small Letter Turned Alpha | |
| Yes | |
| Yes | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Upper | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Alphabetic Letter | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Latin Capital Letter Turned Alpha | |
| None | |
| Neutral | |
| Not Applicable | |
| — | |
| No_Joining_Group | |
| Non Joining | |
| Alphabetic | |
| None | |
| not a number | |
| Latin Small Letter Turned Alpha | |
| R |