Ɩ

Latin Capital Letter Iota

U+0196
BMP Unicode 1.1
Character Ɩ
Decimal Ɩ
Hex Ɩ

Classification

Unicode properties assigned to this character by the Unicode Consortium. The codepoint is its unique numeric identifier. Category, block, and script determine how text systems render and process it.

Codepoint
U+0196
Decimal
406
Plane
BMP — Basic Multilingual Plane
Category
Uppercase Letter (Lu)
Script
Latin
Bidi class
L Left-to-Right
East Asian Width
N Narrow
Properties
Alphabetic ID Start ID Continue
Lowercase
ɩ U+0269

Looks Like (Confusables)

Characters that are visually similar — relevant for security, font design, and homoglyph detection.

Encodings & Escape Sequences

Every Unicode character can be represented in multiple ways depending on context. HTML entities let you embed it safely in web pages. UTF-8 bytes are what gets stored on disk and sent over the network. Escape sequences let you reference it in source code without pasting the raw glyph. All formats below refer to the same character — Latin Capital Letter Iota.

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Format Value
HTML Decimal
Ɩ
HTML Hex
Ɩ
UTF-8 Hex Bytes
C6 96
UTF-16 Hex Bytes
01 96
UTF-32 Hex
00000196
CSS Escape
\196
JavaScript Escape
\u0196
Python Escape
\u0196
URL Encoded
%C6%96
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