Ȧ (minuscule: ȧ) is a letter of the Latin alphabet, derived from A with the addition of a dot above the letter. It is occasionally used as a phonetic symbol for a low central vowel, /ä/. As a character in a computer file, it can be represented in the Unicode character encoding but not the standard ASCII character encoding. It was used in Harari romanization for a voiced pharyngeal fricative.

Preview | Ȧ | ȧ | ||
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Unicode name | LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH DOT ABOVE | LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH DOT ABOVE | ||
Encodings | decimal | hex | dec | hex |
Unicode | 550 | U+0226 | 551 | U+0227 |
UTF-8 | 200 166 | C8 A6 | 200 167 | C8 A7 |
Numeric character reference | Ȧ |
Ȧ |
ȧ |
ȧ |
References
edit- Pullum, Geoffrey K.; Ladusaw, William A. (1996). Phonetic Symbol Guide. University of Chicago Press. p. 3.