Turned Capital F Ⅎ
Symbol Meaning
Turned Capital F Ⅎ or the so-called digamma inversum was a part of Latin alphabet, but not for a long time. In the middle of the 1st century the future Roman Emperor Claudius added it to the alphabet. At the time he was a censor responsible for conducting a population census. The inverted “F” represented consonant sounds close in sound to ].
The symbol did not last long in the Latin alphabet and was soon forgotten after Claudius' death. However, this symbol is still present in Unicode. What may you need it for? Perhaps to create fun inverted inscriptions that draw the attention of your audience. Check this out: xoℲ.
The symbol “Turned Capital F” is included in the “Letterlike symbols” subblock of the “Letterlike Symbols” block and was approved as part of Unicode version 1.1 in 1993.
Synonyms
claudian digamma inversum.
| Unicode Name | Turned Capital F |
| Unicode Number | |
| HTML Code | |
| CSS Code | |
| Plane | 0: Basic Multilingual Plane |
| Unicode Block | Letterlike Symbols |
| Unicode Subblock | Letterlike symbols |
| Lowercase | ⅎ |
| Unicode Version | 1.1 (1993) |
| Type of paired mirror bracket (bidi) | None |
| Composition Exclusion | No |
| Case change | 214E |
| Simple case change | 214E |
| Alphabetic | + |
| Uppercase | + |
| Cased | + |
| Changes_When_Lowercased | + |
| Changes_When_Casefolded | + |
| Changes_When_Casemapped | + |
| ID_Start | + |
| ID_Continue | + |
| XID_Start | + |
| XID_Continue | + |
| Grapheme_Base | + |
| scripts | Latin |
| Encoding | hex | dec (bytes) | dec | binary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UTF-8 | E2 84 B2 | 226 132 178 | 14845106 | 11100010 10000100 10110010 |
| UTF-16BE | 21 32 | 33 50 | 8498 | 00100001 00110010 |
| UTF-16LE | 32 21 | 50 33 | 12833 | 00110010 00100001 |
| UTF-32BE | 00 00 21 32 | 0 0 33 50 | 8498 | 00000000 00000000 00100001 00110010 |
| UTF-32LE | 32 21 00 00 | 50 33 0 0 | 841023488 | 00110010 00100001 00000000 00000000 |