Unicode Character "Ɑ" (U+2C6D)

The character Ɑ (Latin Capital Letter Alpha) is represented by the Unicode codepoint U+2C6D. It is encoded in the Latin Extended-C block, which belongs to the Basic Multilingual Plane. It was added to Unicode in version 5.1 (March, 2008). It is HTML encoded as Ɑ.

Main Unicode Properties

Name Latin Capital Letter Alpha
Unicode Codepoint U+2C6D
Unicode Version 5.1 (March, 2008)
Block Latin Extended-C
Plane Basic Multilingual Plane

Bidirectional Data

Bidirectional class Left To Right (L)
Is mirrored? No

Character Case

Case Uppercase
Lowercase character ɑ (U+0251)

Other Unicode Data

Category Uppercase Letter
Script Latin
Combining Class Not Reordered

U+2C6D Conversion

HTML (decimal) Ɑ
HTML (hex) Ɑ
HTML (named) -
URL Escape Code %E2%B1%AD
CSS \002C6D
JavaScript, JSON \u2C6D
C, C++, Java \u2C6D
Python \u2C6D
Rust \u{2C6D}
Ruby \u2C6D

How to type "Ɑ"

  • Windows ?: Hold Alt, then type 2 C 6 D. Release Alt.
  • Mac ?: Hold Alt ⌥, then type 2 C 6 D. Release Alt.

Preview

  • Ɑ
    Times, Times New Roman, serif
  • Ɑ
    Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif
  • Ɑ
    Courier, Courier New, monospace

UTF Encodings

UTF-8 (hex) 0xE2 0xB1 0xAD
UTF-16 (hex) 0x2C6D
UTF-32 (hex) 0x00002C6D

References